Quotes About Contempt

I am surrounded by ancient friends and allies, Rogue, what do you have to counter that? Vinculus thrust out his dirty chin at the gentleman in a gesture of the utmost contempt. A book! he said.

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

No. Thank you she said in a voice that said he could go to hell and take his jacket with him.

Schopenhauer's... vitriolic contempt for the 'professors of philosophy'. Independently wealthy, Schopenhauer scorned those who lived 'from' rather than 'for' philosophy: since he who pays the piper calls the tune, independence of thought, he held, requires independence of means.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

Qué hijo de puta

A Oliveira lo fascinaban las sinrazones de la Maga, su tranquilo desprecio por los cálculos más elementales.

Ustedes son basura, nada más que basura! ¡Unos pobres gallinazos sin plumas! Ya verán cómo les saco ventaja.

Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority.

I hated Jason Witten. I appreciated his game, but I always hated him.

Do you think I really care what Jeff Gordon says?

If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.

If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.

On the one hand our body is our temple, but on the other we despise it for being mere machinery. We've become accustomed to valuing mind over body. We feel nothing but contempt for the factors relating to our physical survival.

Raven Stone and Don Carson are the stupidest fucking people on the planet because their mothers didn't breastfeed them.

We have become so used to the occupier's contempt and his determination to maintain his stranglehold, whatever the cost, that any semblance of generosity or any sign of goodwill is greeted with surprise and jubilation.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.

Contempt is one of the most damaging of the four negative communication patterns that predict divorce. The other three are criticism, defensiveness, and stonewalling

We all have the right and need to feel and own our anger. It's an important human experience. And it's critical to recognize that maintaining any level of rage, anger or contempt (that favorite concoction of a little anger and a little disgust) over a long period of time is not sustainable.

When we spend our lives pushing away and protecting ourselves from feeling vulnerable or from being perceived as too emotional, we feel contempt when others are less capable or willing to mask feelings, suck it up, and soldier on.

Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.

No shortage in terrorists, Grant observed grimly. They came in all dimensions: groups of political fanatics with blind obedience and perverted social conscience; the trained assassin tracking down their victim in a peaceful Austrian village; a boy in a quiet Washington street killing on vicious impulse. All of them, however different they seemed, bent on destruction. All of them, however motivated, with total contempt for human life.

though envy is at best a very malignant passion, yet is its bitterness greatly heightened by mixing with contempt towards the same object;