Ridiculed Quotes
66 quotes by 59 authors
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Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be…
— Tony Campolo
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Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and…
— Nikola Tesla
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Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions,…
— Sarah Schulman
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Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
— Thomas de Quincey
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All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.
— Robin Sharma
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and…
— Seneca the Younger
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Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics,…
— Michio Kaku
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Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win. This was a…
— Ann Coulter
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Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.
— Ann Coulter
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So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as…
— Liz Phair
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Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no…
— Ennio Flaiano
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not…
— Samuel Johnson
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He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care…
— Dean Koontz
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When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part…
— Denis Waitley
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I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to…
— Susannah McCorkle
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Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.
— Dillon Burroughs
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Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they…
— Nathan Runkle
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How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called…
— Horace Walpole
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