Quotes About Dismissal

Usually, 'All Lives Matter' comes as a response to 'Black Lives Matter'; it doesn't exist in a vacuum. So when people say 'Black Lives Matter,' a lot of times the response 'All Lives Matter' can seem very condescending, dismissive to 'Black Lives Matter.'

I used to work at a health food store. I got fired for drinking straight Bosco on the job.

By shooting your cook you were refusing him permission to enter your house.

There was another, much clearer survival of freethinking ways. Sisterdale had never had a church, and Joe said his family had rarely spoken of religion except to dismiss it. "Dad would tell us, 'Dat's for Catholics', or 'Dat's for Lutherans, not us,' and said that if he wanted to talk to God he could do it in the fields.

I think you'd better leave." Lockhart stiffened. "I do not believe it is your place to request my departure." Shaking his head, William pushed back his chair. "I'm not requesting anything. I'm telling you to go.

It was occurring to Reuben that people, especially adults, are rather quick to dismiss small mysteries, to assume that they have simply misunderstood or failed to observe something, and to go on about their business.

If you refused to look, it was easy to pretend it wasn't happening.

He had to get rid of her.

Dave always reacts to people rather than responding to them. To have a strong opinion is fine, but to dismiss others' thoughts is not.

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of ancient tribal hatreds. I think this is an easy way for Westerners to dismiss the whole thing as a regrettable but pointless bloodbath that happens to primitive brown people.

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

Thou art relieved of thy duties!

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. —Capt. J. A. Hatfield

It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

Away you three-inch fool!

Around Whitehall, a sacking from Churchill was known as the 'awarding of the Order of the Boot.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Sometimes,the word FINE could simply mean FORGET IT..NOT EXPOSING .

And it irritated me beyond all measure that a thought so enormous and ludicrous should return when my logic had dismissed it.