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Quotes About Dismissal

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.
~ Maxine Waters
It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.
~ Campbell Brown
In the 1999 World Cup, I remember Nayan Mongia's brilliant catch to dismiss Azhar Mahmood off Anil Kumble. It was the catch of the World Cup.
~ Dinesh Karthik
Tied up with his dismissal of natural law is Hayek's continuous, and all-pervasive, attack on reason. Reason is his bete noire, and time and time again, from numerous and even contradictory standpoints, he opposes it.
~ Murray Rothbard
There ain't nothing worse than getting fired by somebody you hate, because it means they
~ Sarah Monette
I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.
~ Bernard Manning
I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.
~ Stephen King
He arrived, looked me over with a smiling and impudent curiosity; said he had come for me, and informed me that he was a page. Go 'long, I said; you ain't more than a paragraph.
~ Mark Twain
There needs to be an error code that means "I received your request but decided to ignore you.
~ Martha Wells
If they cannot deny it, they will probably ignore it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I laughed and dismissed the idea.
~ Atul Gawande
such episodes are shrugged off.
~ Atul Gawande
The language by which we have been taught to dismiss ourselves and our feelings as suspect is the same language we use to dismiss and suspect each other.
~ Audre Lorde
Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly "inferior" capacity to feel deeply.
~ Audre Lorde
When patriarchy dismisses us, it encourages our murderers.
~ Audre Lorde
When patriarchy dismisses us, it encourages our murderers. When radical lesbian feminist theory dismisses us, it encourages its own demise.
~ Audre Lorde
These are tough times," said the COO to each of them. "And tough times call for hard solutions. Thank you for your contribution. Now get the fuck out of here." Actually, he didn't say that precisely. But that's precisely what he meant.
~ Stanley Bing
Resurrection... ah, there's a word (that you should put right the fuck out of your mind and you know it).
~ Stephen King
Everyone who's conscious deserves some level of expectation, not dismissal as a throwaway.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
a minute!" I felt that queasy sensation in my stomach that you always get when they dismiss you. Like someone sucking out your insides through your back. They have to say it three times to get rid of you, if you're keen on sticking around. Usually you're not. But this time I remained where I was, two glowing eyes in an angry fug of boiling smoke. "Do you know what you are asking
~ Jonathan Stroud
It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.
~ Emma Forrest
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.
~ Jim Harrison
I should have the opportunity, if I need to let somebody go, to let the person go in a very humane, dignified way.
~ Anthony Scaramucci