It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“What our contempt often hurls from us, We wish it our again; the present pleasure, By revolution lowering, does become The opposite… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
We awake every day chose to live life, but it's disregarded as what we choose to do. — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
If you look at the Bernie Sanders of today and you look at the Bernie Sanders of a year ago [2015], when… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions… — Anna Quindlen 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
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith 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
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
