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Quotes About Despise

Hurry up and go back and come over here quick, you cock suckers." . . .[Counsel for the claimants objected unsuccessfully to this language.] What Akipa meant to have them understand was that he had no fear of them; that he despised them. The Indians had no curse words, or oaths, and they used this expression to express their contempt.
~ Gary Clayton Anderson
Let's be clear: unless I have profoundly misunderstood its position, I pretty much despise American Libertarianism. Have these people seriously looked at the problems of the world and thought, 'Hmm, what we need here is a bit more selfishness'? . . . I beg to differ.
~ Iain Banks
men had turned their minds to the passion of faction, and learned to despise the old wisdom because they could not read it afresh.
~ Iain Pears
I don't really have anything against the French except that, as an American, I've been bred to despise them with the same zeal as soccer and Renny Harlin films.
~ John Ridley
Tamara, Shemyaza is a god, but he is also a man. Do not be foolish and allow his glamour to bewitch you. It is vital you remain in control. Love him as the Prince of Light, but despise the Adam in him. You, in some respects, are more powerful than he, for you are female. I am relying on you.
~ Storm Constantine
I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
~ Rand Paul
I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.
~ Steve Huffman
We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise.In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.
~ Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love
If a person admires you a lot you despise him and you don't care-- and it is the person who doesn't notice you that are apt to admire.
~ Carson McCullers
To get ourselves out of a tight spot, it seems to me, we are ourselves just as mendacious as those we are always accusing of mendacity, those whom we despise and drag in the dirt for their mendacity;
~ Thomas Bernhard
The beginning of love is truth, and before He will give us His love, God must cleanse our souls of the lies that are in them. And the most effective way of detaching us from ourselves is to make us detest our­selves.
~ Thomas Merton
Are we a nation in which one brand of religion enjoys a place of privilege? Are we a nation of laws—except in cases where the law offends the feelings of those who subscribe to our preferred religion? Will we recognize the equal dignity of all of our citizens? Or are we the kind of society that heaps contempt upon those groups that our national religion happens to despise?
~ Katherine Stewart
It seems to me that I despised you. My joy at finding you again was not genuine.
~ C.G. Jung
As is true of most men who wield their power like a weapon, Conkling was widely feared, slavishly obeyed, and secretly despised.
~ Candice Millard
Sorrow and helplessness join the pity party, and I despise both. These emotions are not innocent, but deadly. They devoured my past, eating at my happiness until nothing remained; i can't cede my present or my future, too.
~ Gena Showalter
Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.
~ Geoffrey Wood
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his…. It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He was strong and unforgiving, a bully, and I saw that he would be that way for the rest of his life; and for this same reason I suspected that he would always be successful in whatever he did, and I despised and feared him for that.
~ George Bishop
Yes, my mother was on about Byron. But who wants to be like Byron? I despise him.
~ Iris Murdoch
He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth; but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
~ Bible
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I reminded myself that Pauline says they have to despise us in order to come near us, in order to overcome their terrible fear of us. She has some very romantic ideas.
~ Susanna Moore
I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.
~ Suzanne Collins
Everyone had learned to despise waste. It was creeping back into fashion, though. A sign of prosperity, like a decent shirt.
~ Suzanne Collins