Contemning Quotes

#1. Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

R. H. Tawney

#2. Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who "identified" with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.

Joseph Epstein

#3. To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

Thomas Aquinas

#4. Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

St. Jerome

#5. Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

Nikola Tesla

#6. In certain situations, you can't worry about how people will react. You just hyave to be as honest as you can and let what happens afterward happen.

Marisa De Los Santos

#7. The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

Albert Einstein

#8. I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to end up on national television.

Miranda Hart

#9. Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.

Philip James Bailey

#10. What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end ...

Tim O'Brien

#11. Ty pointed his beer at Josh. "Want to know what I think?"
"No," Josh said.
"I think you have a case of being a little girl. Maybe you should prescribe yourself a heavy dose of man-the-fuck-up.

Jill Shalvis