Inspirational Quote by Carolyn Heilbrun Download Open image “That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.” — Carolyn Heilbrun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Insulting Insulting me Quotations Use Use it or lose it
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Insult is in the ear of the listener. Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing,… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I am brought up that you cannot insult people, say things that you cannot follow through with, or say things you have no idea… — Dmitry Bivol Copy Share Image
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“. . . the less androgynous the person, the likelier he or she was to be incapable of action if the appropriate action was… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“But will anyone again look at that tree, read that poem, love a dog in quite my way? I am a particular and, despite… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image