We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected,… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
Trump is especially reviled and despised because he's really a man. He's really a man. He's really what's wrong with men, and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Nepotism is despised in England, which is a very good thing. I think something to do with the class system. People really… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse. — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It's a blessed thing to die daily. For what is there in this world to be accounted of! The best men according… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish… — Frank Murphy Copy Share Image
Do not think you need necessarily have as fine swords and clothing as your neighbor. As long as they are not disreputable,… — Hojo Soun Copy Share Image
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since… — Agnes Mary Clerke Copy Share Image
