The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Only your mother could find you attractive, and only your mother could love you. — Joan Kiddell-Monroe Copy Share Image
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn. — Ouida Copy Share Image
In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing. — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate. — William Gifford Copy Share Image
A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a… — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired… — William Law Copy Share Image
Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling,… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“Despite the clear scientific consensus, a veritable brigade of self-proclaimed, underinformed armchair experts lurk on comment threads the world over, eager to… — David Robert Grimes Copy Share Image
The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace In that broad trim that hides thy sober face? Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“On a social level, secularism is safe. As literally the world's most fundamental conformist, the secularist wants to call himself a revolutionary… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
