Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes?… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“They heard! --they suspected! --they knew! --they were making a mockery of my horror!-this I thought, and this I think. But anything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but… — Philip French Copy Share Image
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling… — Peter David Copy Share Image
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
“It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on… — Michael Hanlon Copy Share Image
Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image