Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Don't despise the little steps you know you can take every day. There are tiny miracles in each and every one of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war. — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
