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Quotes About Dismissal

Whatever their many vices, wrote Shushtari, the English welcomed and rewarded talent: 'the English have no arbitrary dismissal,' he noted, 'and every competent person keeps his job until he writes his own request for retirement or resignation. More remarkable still is
~ William Dalrymple
The result has been strangely paradoxical: anthropological reflections on their own culpability has mainly had the effect of providing non-anthropologists who do not want to be bothered having to learn about 90% of human experience with a handy two or three sentence dismissal (you know: all about projecting one's sense of Otherness into the colonized) by which they can feel morally superior to those who do.
~ David Graeber
We all have things we cannot deal with," he said. In the end you just look away and pretend they're not happening." - Johannes Forsell
~ David Lagercrantz
The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.
~ John Shelby Spong
This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.
~ Paul Keating
When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder with a coat hanger.
~ Steven Wright
Go, and never darken my towels again
~ Groucho Marx
I was in a panto last year, Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp. I played the wick. I got the sack because I was too well-oiled every night.
~ Frank Carson
Roses are red Violets are blueI don't go on this accountSo go away SHOO!
~ bob C Cow
WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY APP! I LIKED IT JUST HOW IT WAS! CHANGE IT BACK!" The standard playbook in software is to dismiss users like that. Hey, this is the price of progress, and progress is always good, always better. That's myopic and condescending. For many customers, better doesn't matter when comfort, consistency, and familiarity are higher up on their value chain.
~ Jason Fried
ignored with disdain by
~ Albert Payson Terhune
I'm running it. Not Mr. Ruhl or any one else. Get that through your head, once and for all." "Looka here!" flashed Cleppy. "I don't aim to let any man speak that way to my wife. Cut it out, before I—" "You're fired," ordained Banks, in his best voice. "Go to the cashier and get your time. I'll not stand for any back talk or bluster here. Not from anybody. Get out!
~ Albert Payson Terhune
In fact, the CDC would later implicitly acknowledge the system's value when it admitted in June that the mRNA vaccines could cause myocarditis—a potentially serious heart problem—in young men. Side effect reports from VAERS formed the core of the agency's analysis.37 Yet even after that finding, the stories dismissing the value of the VAERS reports went on.38 I am not an "anti-vaxxer.
~ Alex Berenson
Talk to the tail, vamp," he growled.
~ Alexandra Ivy
The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.
~ John Updike
I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
~ Taylor Schilling
If someone offers me a hot plate of Penne Arrabiata, fageddaboutit.
~ Ross Butler
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
~ Gore Vidal
Your presence here, Miss Eads, is preposterous. This is neither a rooming house nor an asylum for hysterical women; it is my—" "I'm not hysterical!" "Very well, I withdraw it. It is not an asylum for unhysterical women; it is my office and my home.
~ Rex Stout
As Davy said, so it happened. The ironworkers started to work in the pit for not much more than some of the boys. Some of them even started pulling the trams in place of the ponies. A lot of the older and better-paid men got discharged without being told why, although it was put out that they were too old and could not work as well as they ought. But that was nonsense, because Dai Griffiths, one of them, was one of the best in the Valley and known for it.
~ Richard Llewellyn
Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply that from time to time they were unaccountably drawn to the grotesque.
~ Richard Russo
Did I ask ye how old you were today? Get out of my face before I give ye a good clout to the ear.
~ Kate DiCamillo