Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion. — Bob Horner Copy Share Image
I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair.… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Consult, v.t. To seek another’s approval of a course already decided on. Contempt, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed…If I… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I snatched a flute of champagne from a passing waiter who harrumphed with disdain. The degree of contempt underlings are willing to… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“Paul said, 'You always had some contempt for me.' 'Yes.' 'And love too.' 'Yes.' A flicker over her stare was the facial… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point. — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there -… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are,… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. It's unbelievable the kind of… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery… — John Gay Copy Share Image
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