We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
“Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help… — Graham Austin-King Copy Share Image
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't think that the media is ever going to be on the same stage with Donald Trump. I don't think the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One creates his own way of contentment, with mindset of satisfaction what they have according their merit & ability. They strive to… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
He still crosses my mind several times a day, but with each one of those times, a feeling of contempt also passes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority.” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
“imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate another human soul if one knows,… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. — John M. Gottman Copy Share Image
Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I saw that this desire to control society in the name of equality expresses exactly the contempt for human freedom that I… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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