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Quotes About Dismissal

Stupidity is not a crime. You're free to go.
~ Tags: hunting
Plenty of people take me for a pompous git way too fond of the sound of his own voice, which is absolutely fine with me. Go ahead and dismiss me; go right ahead and drop your guard.
~ Tana French
Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.
~ William Shakespeare
When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.
~ Hyman Rickover
We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture, everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed.
~ Mark Rylance
When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
~ Andrew Davies
Donald Trump is President of the United States and his National Security Council works for him. If he wants to fire someone, so be it.
~ Trish Regan
The tendency has really been, insofar as this was possible, to dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing.150
~ Chris Hedges
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I was abruptly recognized as nonthreatening, brusquely advised to fuck off, and off I duly and promptly fucked.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The elementary rules of logic: that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
~ Christopher Hitchens
What can be asserted without proof can be dissmissed without proof.
~ Christopher Hitchens
An astrologer of a London tabloid was once fired by means of a letter from his editor which began, "As you will no doubt have foreseen.")
~ Christopher Hitchens
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. This is even more true when the "evidence" eventually offered is so shoddy and self-interested.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The "evidence" for faith, then, seems to leave faith looking even weaker than it would if it stood, alone and unsupported, all by itself. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. This is even more true when the "evidence" eventually offered is so shoddy and self-interested.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor expressed by writer Christopher Hitchens. It says that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim; if this burden is not met, then the claim is unfounded, and its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it. Hitchens has phrased the razor in writing as What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Mr. Asher, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." "No, ma'am, I'm going to have to insist that you pass away, this instant. You're overdue.
~ Christopher Moore
Take your sorcerer's stone elsewhere.
~ Christopher Paolini
It was naught but a flesh wound.
~ Christopher Paolini
It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal.
~ Victor Hugo
You needn't trouble yourself. He's only a librarian.
~ Laini Taylor
How swiftly you dismiss our love...
~ Cassandra Clare
what's worse, if you're expected not to show your feelings, or if you're expected to show them so they can be disregarded?
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Decibel Jones sighed and shook his head. Today was fired. Today was well and truly sacked. Today could, in point of fact, fuck all the way off.
~ Catherynne M. Valente