“Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its… — Ad-Rock 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
“The satisfaction we take from performing a task (especially when we have no belief in the task and even disdain it) shows… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough… — Jack Kelly Copy Share Image
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
The biggest moments of insecurity come when all self-confidence is lost and you feel like people are watching and judging. It should… — Miley Cyrus 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
Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?" "I consider their disdain for her to… — brandon sanderson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters… — David Remnick 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
Indeed, the Duke of Edinburgh's disdain for his eldest son was all the more shocking because he made little or no attempt… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Many of us are vocal about our disdain for 'cancel culture' but then want to cancel those we disagree with, even within… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?". — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true… — Zsa Zsa Gabor Copy Share Image
He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human… — William James Copy Share Image
Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce… — George Croly Copy Share Image
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
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