When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation"… — Bob Sutton Copy Share Image
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
“Familiarity may breed contempt; but perhaps it would be more truthful to say that familiarity breeds blindness” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten. — Lord Chesterfield 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
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire 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
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever. — D-Gray Man Copy Share Image
