Quotes of: Despised Keyword

Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.

Varieties of Culture History

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Sidney Poitier

He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Mao Zedong

It is politics to please and hoodwink those Who flatter but despise us.

Kural

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.

John Rhys-Davies

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Charles Eastman

You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.

Coco J. Ginger

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

Hedy Lamarr

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Alvin Toffler

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

John C. Maxwell

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Khalil Gibran

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

Linda Chavez

Don't make fun of others. They have feelings too. Respect all and despise none.

Kevin Keenoo

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

Robert Smith

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Martin H. Fischer

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Xun Zi

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourse...

Listen, Little Man!

Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly not the incontrovertible glory of the Middle Ages. What I do despise is the contemporary inclination to flop to the knee...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

An important distinction needs to be made in politics between allowing your values to guide you and keeping religion and government separate. Liberals are rightly concerned about government-established and government-supported religion, especially in...

Deval Patrick