Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. — John M. Gottman Copy Share Image
There is no appeasing Putin. Frankly, there is no directly stopping him, either. It is only possible to raise the costs to… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
“What! your wisdom thinks I must love the man I'm going to marry? The most unpleasant thing in the world. I should… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope… — Will Durst Copy Share Image
I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. Its unbelievable the kind of… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
