Contemptable Quotes

#1. It is ... [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as a Nation. This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the World are turned upon them.

George Washington

#2. Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off ...

Jenna Blum

#3. We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

Douglas Leone

#4. They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Suzanne Finnamore

#5. The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin?

Philo

#6. I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

Nicole Holofcener

#7. A wet dream in the mind of New York.

Erica Jong

#8. While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

Maria Bartiromo

#9. I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

Sidney Poitier

#10. PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Diane Wakoski

#11. If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.

Matthew Pearl