Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense… — Earl Of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Speak nothing into the ears of a man without discernment, Lest he treat your wise words with contempt. - PROVERBS 23:9 — Bible Copy Share Image
Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority.… — Harold Russell 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 hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Unk was at war with his environment. He had come to regard his environment as being either malevolent or cruelly mismanaged. His… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Well--there it was, and the fault was doubtless neither hers nor his, but that of the world they had grown up in,… — Edith Wharton 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
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People who are… — David Brin 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
[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my… — Bernie Marsden Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the… — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her,… — Alison Roberta Noble Neilans Copy Share Image
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second… — Wyatt Earp Copy Share Image
I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
With health care, once you set yourself up as the source for people's health care, not insurance, you own them. That way… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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![“We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/743/warren-mackenzie-4654_awareness_we-became-more-familiar-with-bernard-lea_1539867.jpg)
![“Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63b/mark-twain-22_accounts_geniuses-are-people-who-dash-off-weird-w_1004031.jpg)
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