Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting;… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated. — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it… — Dean Dillon Copy Share Image
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent;… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and… — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
O what a disgrace if such a despised and base race, which worships demons, should conquer a people which has the faith… — Pope Urban II Copy Share Image
Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image