In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Keep away from people who always try to stop you from sharing your opinions with the entire world. Don't listen to people… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It was your little white soul I tried to keep near me- even when life was at its loudest and every intellectual… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Immigration is everyone’s business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be… — Geoffrey Blainey Copy Share Image
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion… — Anne Fontaine Copy Share Image
To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic'… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
It's sort of like a mockery, in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers where… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
A gadget connoisseur has to be able to suspend feelings of disbelief, pessimism, and mockery. The phrase 'That thing ain't gonna last… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons,… — Malalai Joya Copy Share Image
“Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things…one of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“But the truth was she could not bear to be around thier undead,healthy children.More than envy she felt that each laughing redcheeked… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Talking about doing great things and not actually doing them makes a mockery of great things and a fool of the person… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality. — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
Trump will not respond to reasoned argument. He will not be held accountable for the things he said. All you can do… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image