O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
When I look at you, all I can do is say to myself is, How did someone so sweet become a jerk?… — Emma Hampton Copy Share Image
An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Society WORSHIPS those that are beautiful and PUTS DOWN those who aren't. If you don't see a problem with this you're a… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
“Millions cheer the warrior spilling blood across the ring while the one who stands for peace is ridiculed and shamed. Must hearts… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
What does annoy me is when critics use me to ridicule my audience. All the stuff about 'Tesco housewives' and 'the blue-rinse… — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or… — Frank Serpico Copy Share Image
When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS." I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL,… — John Green Copy Share Image
When there are legitimate concerns and frustrations it is never cool to marginalise and ridicule the people who have those concerns. — James Cleverly Copy Share Image
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
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