Quotes About Despise

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

I hate babies.

I am always frightened of something which exists in the majority of people, but which I cannot explain. The young generation of the period of transition were like me. In our mind we despised our slavery, but we ourselves became cowardly slaves. Our hatred was deep and passionate, but barren, like the mad love of a eunuch.

You, therefore, who are undertaking the study of this book, if you persevere to the end and understand it, you will be either a monarch or a madman. Do what you will with this volume, you will be unable to despise or to forget it.

He did not answer, nor did he watch as I left. He was seeing Sigismund again, dwelling on replies he could never speak to a brother he had once admired and who had died despising him.

She picked up her glove and hit his cheek with it, but so lightly he did not even blink. "I despise you," she said. "Quite," said Mr. Mackenzie. Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

All Patriot fans despise Goodell.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

My hatred of privilege and human authority was unbounded; perhaps at times I have been guilty, in my indignation, of confounding persons and things; at present I can only despise and complain; to cease to hate I only needed to know.

He is the world's master who despises it, its slave who prizes it.

The resurrection of the body forbids us to despise the material realm.

I could feel their eyes, saw them all and saw too the time when they would know that my prospects were ended and saw already the contempt they'd feel for me, a college man who had lost his prospects and pride. I could see it all and I knew that even the officials and the older men would despise me as though, somehow, in losing my place in Bledsoe's world I had betrayed them . . . I saw it as they looked at my overalls.

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration ... and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose—as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

Its hatred is directed not only against Hindus of the more diverse traditions—the ones that the British, and Rammohan Roy, taught the Hindus to despise—but also, ironically, against the very monotheisms (Islam and Christianity) that nurtured the Hindu insistence that Hinduism is monotheistic.

No profit was too small to despise; no loss was too small to abhor.

Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have.

He began to despise the Universe in general, and everybody in it in particular.

The guard looked from one to the other. His mind was soon made up. His training led him to despise foreigners, and to respect and admire well-dressed gentleman who travelled first class.

I'm not good at everything. Or, to be more honest, I'm pretty bad on some fairly major metrics. I'm selfish. I feel entitled to things always going my way. I despise hearing about other people's problems, because I don't like most people, especially people who would be described as normal. They say ignorance is bliss? I think bliss is for the ignorant.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

But he - he hated pity as a cat hates water.