Denunciations Quotes

#1. I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.

John C. Calhoun

#2. Wrong and injustice to the poor he resented as an injury to God. His vehement love for the poor is illustrated by his "Epistle to Coroticus," reproaching him with his cruelty, as well as by his denunciations of slavery, which piracy had introduced into parts of Ireland.

Aubrey De Vere

#3. Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.

Thomas Sowell

#4. I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

Lionel Trilling

#5. Despite whatever the left may say, or even believe, about their concern for the poor, their actual behavior shows their interest in the poor to be greatest when the poor can be used as a focus of the left's denunciations of society.

Thomas Sowell

#6. Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both are forms of scapegoating, neither accomplishes anything.

J.M. Coetzee

#7. Especially when it came to his triumphant denunciations of his political enemies, each of whom, she suspected, were only too relieved that it was him rather than they who had been caught. She

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

William Hazlitt

#9. There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#12. Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

Joshuah Bearman

#13. The question is yet before the court.

Horace

#14. I'm not an oddball.

Lee Remick

#15. To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. Theres too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. Its just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.

Antonio Banderas

#16. You can't worry about looks. It's about the inside at the end of the day because we're all going to get old and gray one day.

Romeo Miller

#17. My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

Scott Adams

#18. People are either dwelling too much on the past or worrying too much on the future by totally forgetting the present.

Tim I. Gurung

#19. I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

Jorge Luis Borges

#20. Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

Louise Erdrich

#21. While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.

John Edward Williams