Dismiss Quotes
191 Dismiss quotes by 171 unique authors
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Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair…
— Suzanne Collins
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But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike any of her…
— Charles Frazier
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Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the…
— Alain de Botton
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How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!
— David Mitchell
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Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it…
— Andy Stanley
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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed…
— Yann Martel
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Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after,…
— Frederick Buechner
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I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall…
— Walt Whitman
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Your eyes have turned as black as a Crow’s,” she blurted out. He didn’t even blink over her bizarre comment. “Not this time, Christina,” he…
— Julie Garwood
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It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to…
— Arundhati Roy
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I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
— William Shakespeare
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Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss…
— Bayard Rustin
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You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for…
— Julia Roberts
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People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them…
— Lisa Randall
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If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.
— Sebastian Horsley
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Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in a…
— Russell Smith
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Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.
— John Sheffield
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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled…
— Karen Armstrong
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When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss.…
— Michael Koryta
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Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional…
— Jon Landau
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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for…
— Walt Whitman
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome
— William James
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I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the…
— Stephen F Roberts
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It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either…
— John Perry Barlow
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