We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct. — Max Winkler Copy Share Image
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and… — Ken Grimwood Copy Share Image
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean? — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I go into the crowd almost everyday and I really really really despise it when people try to steal my shoes. That… — Jack Barakat Copy Share Image
Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet… — John Gay Copy Share Image