Quotes about Despise

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. Votes: 6

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. Votes: 4

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. Votes: 4

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Votes: 4

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. Votes: 4

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. Votes: 4

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. Votes: 3

Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance. Votes: 3

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. Votes: 3

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically Votes: 3

Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart. Votes: 3

Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers. Votes: 3

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Votes: 3

All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all its Attributes! In place of the cowardly phrase, Obey the law, our cry, is Revolt against all laws! Votes: 3

A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. Votes: 3

It is only the ignorant who despise education. Votes: 2

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. Votes: 2

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. Votes: 2

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. Votes: 2

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods. Votes: 2

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. Votes: 2

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. Votes: 2

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. Votes: 2

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. Votes: 2

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. Votes: 2

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. Votes: 2

Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border. Votes: 2

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. Votes: 2

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. Votes: 2

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. Votes: 2

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me. Votes: 2

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. Votes: 2

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. Votes: 2

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war. Votes: 2

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. Votes: 2

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. Votes: 2

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. Votes: 2

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. Votes: 2

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Votes: 2

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk. Votes: 2

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. Votes: 2

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' Votes: 2

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' Votes: 2

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. Votes: 2

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. Votes: 2

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent. Votes: 2

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. Votes: 2

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them. Votes: 2

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years. Votes: 2

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. Votes: 2

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration. Votes: 2

Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge. Votes: 2

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. Votes: 1

Never despise meger beginings! Votes: 0

Genius can never despise labour. Votes: 0

Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Votes: 0

People naturally despise a dependant. Votes: 0

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise Votes: 0

People generally despise where they flatter. Votes: 0

I despise shopping and department stores. Votes: 0

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise. Votes: 0

Never despise what you don't understand. Votes: 0

Only the elites despise earning money. Votes: 0

We cannot hate those who we despise. Votes: 0

I despise people who can't control themselves. Votes: 0

First of all, Mets fans despise me. Votes: 0

Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing. Votes: 0

What we love we may also despise. Votes: 0

Can't really despise people you don't know. Votes: 0

I despise in others my own characteristics. Votes: 0

I hate charts. I just despise 'em. Votes: 0

I despise research. I think it's a crutch. Votes: 0

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. Votes: 0

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand. Votes: 0

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor. Votes: 0

We often despise what is most useful to us. Votes: 0

Do not despise your gift. We are all valuable. Votes: 0

One may like the love and despise the lover. Votes: 0

It is easy to despise what you cannot get Votes: 0

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves. Votes: 0

Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius Votes: 0

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars. Votes: 0

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise. Votes: 0

When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears. Votes: 0

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. Votes: 0

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it. Votes: 0

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise. Votes: 0

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it. Votes: 0

I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush. Votes: 0

To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. Votes: 0

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God. Votes: 0

The big fire has no right to despise the little spark! Votes: 0

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries. Votes: 0

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour. Votes: 0

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention. Votes: 0

I never liked you, forever despise you I don't need you. Votes: 0

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. Votes: 0

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. Votes: 0

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures. Votes: 0

I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head. Votes: 0

I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me. Votes: 0

Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise. Votes: 0

There are more things to admire in men then to despise. Votes: 0

A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him. Votes: 0

You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs. Votes: 0

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us. Votes: 0

If you despise increase, you are a strange personality in the society Votes: 0

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful. Votes: 0

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. Votes: 0

Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it Votes: 0

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him. Votes: 0

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise. Votes: 0

What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish? Votes: 0

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise. Votes: 0

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial. Votes: 0

God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best. Votes: 0

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves. Votes: 0

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. Votes: 0

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song? Votes: 0

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves. Votes: 0

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. Votes: 0

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. Votes: 0

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. Votes: 0

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values. Votes: 0

I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives. Votes: 0

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others. Votes: 0

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium. Votes: 0

The main thing I despise about America now is driving on the freeways. Votes: 0

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. Votes: 0

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble. Votes: 0

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. Votes: 0

Don't make fun of others. They have feelings too. Respect all and despise none. Votes: 0

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes. Votes: 0

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. Votes: 0

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. Votes: 0

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it. Votes: 0

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer. Votes: 0

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it. Votes: 0

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her. Votes: 0

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price. Votes: 0

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. Votes: 0

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not. Votes: 0

I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes. Votes: 0

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. Votes: 0

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. Votes: 0

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason. Votes: 0

I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action... Votes: 0

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour. Votes: 0

Dwarfs have also the right to despise the giants, because giants too can be defeated! Votes: 0

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain? Votes: 0

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. Votes: 0

I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any. Votes: 0

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me. Votes: 0

Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war! Votes: 0

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct. Votes: 0

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool. Votes: 0

Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small. Votes: 0

No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all. Votes: 0

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it. Votes: 0

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me. Votes: 0

Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord. Votes: 0

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. Votes: 0

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. Votes: 0

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. Votes: 0

In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike." Votes: 0

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying. Votes: 0

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy. Votes: 0

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Votes: 0

What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you? Votes: 0

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7 NLT Votes: 0

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT Votes: 0

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself. Votes: 0

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. Votes: 0

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do. Votes: 0

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. Votes: 0

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region. Votes: 0

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby. Votes: 0

I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose. Votes: 0

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them. Votes: 0

Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise. Votes: 0

It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods. Votes: 0

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. Votes: 0

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak. Votes: 0

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would. Votes: 0

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it. Votes: 0

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb. Votes: 0

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life. Votes: 0

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer. Votes: 0

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls. Votes: 0

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? Votes: 0

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Votes: 0

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life Votes: 0

Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved. Votes: 0

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power. Votes: 0

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning. Votes: 0

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. Votes: 0

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most Votes: 0

However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels! Votes: 0

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections. Votes: 0

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections. Votes: 0

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves. Votes: 0

The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world. Votes: 0

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga. Votes: 0

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous. Votes: 0

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched. Votes: 0

Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case. Votes: 0

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time. Votes: 0

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. Votes: 0

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. Votes: 0

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it. Votes: 0

If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed! Votes: 0

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to. Votes: 0

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it. Votes: 0

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them. Votes: 0

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? Votes: 0

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system. Votes: 0

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. Votes: 0

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us. Votes: 0

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. Votes: 0

I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town. Votes: 0

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years. Votes: 0

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. Votes: 0

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. Votes: 0

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer. Votes: 0

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel. Votes: 0

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Votes: 0

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. Votes: 0

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things. Votes: 0

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. Votes: 0

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power. Votes: 0

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. Votes: 0

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one. Votes: 0

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes. Votes: 0

He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted. Votes: 0

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. Votes: 0

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him. Votes: 0

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree. Votes: 0

A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity. Votes: 0

Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean? Votes: 0

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. Votes: 0

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. Votes: 0

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters. Votes: 0

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order. Votes: 0

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop. Votes: 0

Truthfully, I despise hotels. I've had such better experiences staying at people's houses and guesthouses; it's so much more comfortable and homey. Votes: 0

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. Votes: 0

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance. Votes: 0

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. Votes: 0

I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'. Votes: 0

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another. Votes: 0

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it. Votes: 0

Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings. Votes: 0

Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have. Votes: 0

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world. Votes: 0

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her. Votes: 0

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood. Votes: 0

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise. Votes: 0

Don't despise the little steps you know you can take every day. There are tiny miracles in each and every one of them. Votes: 0

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like." Votes: 0

I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people. Votes: 0

Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars! Votes: 0

We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them. Votes: 0

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little". Votes: 0

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between. Votes: 0

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism. Votes: 0

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other. Votes: 0

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. Votes: 0

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives. Votes: 0

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion. Votes: 0

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise. Votes: 0

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it. Votes: 0

I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise. Votes: 0

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war. Votes: 0

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. Votes: 0

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... Votes: 0

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. Votes: 0

My approach is different. My mistakes are conscious mistakes. And I learn more than those I despise way too often than those I admire. Votes: 0

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of. Votes: 0

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody. Votes: 0

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it. Votes: 0

I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that. Votes: 0

I was in disbelief that I'd just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan Votes: 0

Do not despise little beginnings. It'll all make sense as you're staring at an opportunity that you realize the difficult moments merely prepared you for. Votes: 0

For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart. Votes: 0

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions. Votes: 0

I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised. Votes: 0

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others. Votes: 0

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves. Votes: 0

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. Votes: 0

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself. Votes: 0

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them. Votes: 0

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable. Votes: 0

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it. Votes: 0

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look. Votes: 0

Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise Votes: 0

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now. Votes: 0

Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born. Votes: 0

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise. Votes: 0

A little time can help you to make a great impact, therefore you should never despise few minutes. Do it till it's done and done well! Votes: 0

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. Votes: 0

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded. Votes: 0

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free Votes: 0

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.... Votes: 0

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them. Votes: 0

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. Votes: 0

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise. Votes: 0

I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way. Votes: 0

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other. Votes: 0

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. Votes: 0

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear. Votes: 0

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice. Votes: 0

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds. Votes: 0

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds. Votes: 0

Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise. Votes: 0

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello. Votes: 0

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation. Votes: 0

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them. Votes: 0

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road. Votes: 0

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living. Votes: 0

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate. Votes: 0

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it. Votes: 0

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now. Votes: 0

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do... Votes: 0

After all you've put me through, you would think I despise you, but in the end I want to thank you because you made me that much stronger. Votes: 0

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite. Votes: 0

That's another thing the #NeverTrump-ers can't figure out and despise. But the media did, too. The media was fascinated. [Donald] Trump was ratings. He was money, and still is. Votes: 0

The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized. Votes: 0

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man. Votes: 0

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West. Votes: 0

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions. Votes: 0

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward. Votes: 0

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian Votes: 0

We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking. Votes: 0

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me. Votes: 0

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works. Votes: 0

The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. Votes: 0

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football. Votes: 0

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul ... Votes: 0

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it. Votes: 0

A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner. Votes: 0

I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian]. Votes: 0

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too. Votes: 0

Every big castle was once started with a single block; despise no small beginnings. A little step taken every day builds up the hope of greater accomplishments. Do something every day! Votes: 0

Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force! Votes: 0

Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Votes: 0

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. Votes: 0

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States. Votes: 0

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in. Votes: 0

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me. Votes: 0

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz) Votes: 0

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise. Votes: 0

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy. Votes: 0

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future. Votes: 0

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself. Votes: 0

The guard looked from one to the other. His mind was soon made up. His training led him to despise foreigners, and to respect and admire well-dressed gentleman who travelled first class. Votes: 0

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it? Votes: 0

I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death. Votes: 0

Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself. Votes: 0

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it~? Votes: 0

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. Votes: 0

I'm sick of being everyone's regret. My mother died in shame because she'd borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron) Votes: 0

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices. Votes: 0

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.] Votes: 0

Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion. Votes: 0

When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming an activist is simply a matter of putting love into action. Votes: 0

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. Votes: 0

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done. Votes: 0

I think that is just about as dishonest as a person giving a bad interview. I despise people like that; they don't get two tries. It's all just sensation. It is always bullshit. Votes: 0

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors. Votes: 0

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise. Votes: 0

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. Votes: 0

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse. Votes: 0

Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves. Votes: 0

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things. Votes: 0

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Votes: 0

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them. Votes: 0

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look. Votes: 0

The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy. Votes: 0

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them. Votes: 0

Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary. Votes: 0

I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known. Votes: 0

False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept. Votes: 0

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease. Votes: 0

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you. Votes: 0

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise. Votes: 0

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Votes: 0

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it. Votes: 0

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?] Votes: 0