Dismiss Quotes

191 Dismiss quotes by 171 unique authors

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask… — Tom Regan
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes,… — Ambrose Bierce
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and… — Camille Paglia
Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many… — Lilian Katz
When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a… — Neil Steinberg
A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically… — Timothy Keller
Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came… — Dave Eggers
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school. — Robert Green Ingersoll
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece… — Audre Lorde
If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then… — Tori Amos
The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the… — Steven Pinker
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest… — Jonathan Haidt
This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage… — Howard W. Hunter
When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's certainly what I… — Laura Ingraham
But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American… — Laura Ingraham
I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it,… — Dana Carvey
Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man,… — Thomas Sowell
My prayer today is to become more mindful of my personal actions. What motivates me to do what I do and to say the things… — Caroline Myss
For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to… — Arthur Machen
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come… — Patricia Churchland
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that. — James Kelman
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for… — Charles Brockden Brown
The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the… — Richard van der Riet Woolley
For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy. — Azar Nafisi

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