"Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent……" — Maureen Dowd
"Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend."
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36 Quotes by Maureen Dowd
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It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.
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Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.
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Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
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The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they…
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The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a…
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More Condescend Quotes
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one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.
— Unknown Author
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms;…
— Samuel Johnson
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If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul,…
— Laurence Sterne
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your…
— Jonathan Swift
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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.
— E L Doctorow
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The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely…
— George Steiner
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is…
— William Butler Yeats
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