When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one… — Henry Walter Bates 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
What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past.… — Agnes Mary Clerke Copy Share Image
I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never… — Jackie Evancho 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
Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die before I get… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation,"… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. — Sallust Copy Share Image
“Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation. — John Owen Copy Share Image
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If the Democrats have their way, African Americans will continue to feel oppressed, despised and handicapped into the indefinite future. All progress… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
