Decried Quotes

#1. Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.

Marcel Proust

#3. Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him.

Marcel Proust

#4. I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

Tracy Chapman

#5. The reverse is a system in which you basically let people who were leaders in one way or another - people sometimes decried as party bosses, people who are part of special interests make the decision. And I think that's a worse system than the one we have.

Geoffrey Cowan

#6. The Romans saw loss of virtue all around them. The Victorians decried the decline in religiosity in the next generation.

Fareed Zakaria

#7. The faculty of imagination is often lightly spoken of as of no real importance, often decried as mischievous, as in some ways the antithesis of practical sense, and yet it ranks with reason and conscience as one of the supreme characteristics by which man is distinguished from

Bill Dedman

#8. Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

Northrop Frye

#9. inhabitants of countries that were colonized by the Europeans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries knew how profoundly distressing it was to watch a cherished way of life disappearing and beloved traditions decried by powerful, disdainful foreigners.

Karen Armstrong

#10. Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

Gary Bauer

#11. [On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.

Kate Clinton

#12. I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever be decried by the world as drunken or insane.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#13. There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Honore De Balzac

#14. Most people don't pray until they're in trouble.
When people need help they pray a lot.
But after they get what they want, they slow down.
If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean.
Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.

Muhammad Ali

#15. There's no talking. No laughing. Nothing but eager hands and sad eyes.

Nyrae Dawn

#16. I'm not leaving. No way in hell," Cole said, eyes flashing, "am I leaving you again.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#17. In designing for the first lady, I tried to sort of be in her shoes, but I didn't really look at her as an important political figure. I looked at her as a woman who would like to wear a beautiful dress to an important gala.

Jason Wu

#18. If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

Jackie Kennedy

#19. If you can hold on to your uniqueness, it will make you the absolute best that you can be.

Gabriel J.M.