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
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
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
“suggestion that “sin” does not make God angry (a frequent idea in modern thought as a reaction against the caricatures of an… — N.T. Wright 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
“Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority.” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind… — Jason Mantzoukas Copy Share Image
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it.… — Khalil Gibran 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
Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection. — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
Prophecies and glory forge a massive disdain. For lying passive in the shadows whilst the enemy reigns. — Cradle Of Filth 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
“Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of… — Eliza Acton Copy Share Image
He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner,… — Neil Gaiman 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
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
“His disdain for the contagious fad of blind and comparative tastings of unrelated wines will surely rub some furs the wrong way,… — Kermit Lynch Copy Share Image
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There's actually a disdain for the conversation about audience in the art world. Artist to artist, if you say, "What do you… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
