It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I wasn't sure if I admired him for feeling everything so hard and fiercely, or if I was contemptuous of him for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good… — Laozi Copy Share Image
They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude. — Mario Cantone Copy Share Image
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