Quotes of: Scorns Keyword

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Miguel de Cervantes

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

Confessions

It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.

A Dance with Dragons

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

The Golden Compass

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.

Scorn for the World: Bernard of Cluny's De Contemptu Mundi : The Latin Text With English Translation and an Introduction

Have they known scorn like you Five cellars down?

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

Barbara Corcoran

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Benito Mussolini

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Calvin Coolidge

For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth brings That then, I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Franz Marc

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Killosophy

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate to them

Song of Myself

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

The Substance of Faith: And Other Cotton Patch Sermons

You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.

A Woman Scorned

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.

Timothy Noah

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.

Lewis Carroll

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

Martin Luther