I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
Opponents criticize Trump for not acting presidential enough; all the while, Obama created and perpetuates the presidential code to demean, disdain and… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
“There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new?… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Our receptivity to praise stands in no relationship to our vulnerability to mean disdain and spiteful abuse. No matter how stupid such… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal;… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat… — David Hemmings Copy Share Image
It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Eurovision was never something that should have been looked at with disdain. It's a congregation of joy. — Sam Ryder Copy Share Image
“In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by… — Caitlin Crews Copy Share Image
Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Copy Share Image
Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a… — Horace Copy Share Image
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