Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference… — Peter Thomas Bauer Copy Share Image
What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg 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
Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at… — Walter Benjamin 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
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
It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch… — Jean Liedloff 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
No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Everybody was in tears. You turned on the radio or the television, and it was nothing but Gainsbourg. With typical British music… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union,… — Alexander Hamilton 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
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
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad. — Gwendolyn Brooks 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
“Jefferson also founded the first intentionally secularized university in America. His vision for the University of Virginia was for education finally free… — Daryl C. Cornett Copy Share Image
