Derogating Quotes

#1. Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, Let him beat me too when I am absent.

Jean De La Fontaine

#2. All of us from 'The Waltons' still love each other. I think we're closer than some real families.

Michael Learned

#3. Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

C.S. Lewis

#4. I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#6. I had injected more of myself than I had ever intended into our nonexistent relationship. Now I would have to relocate the bits and pieces of myself that I had lost, and put myself back together, like a waterlogged puzzle whose pieces didn't quite fit anymore.

Catherine Lowell

#7. Don't let the fact that you're spending time getting organized result in late fees on your credit card bills.

Jean Chatzky

#8. I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.

Carla Gugino

#9. I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.

Deborah Eisenberg

#10. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

James Madison

#11. A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. Not until she stood at her sink, splashing cold water on her face, did she remember her little hippo. What the hell was that about? When did her unconscious get so fucking whimsical? And what fine truth was he going to tell her?

Christopher Bram

#13. What is it about me that other people would change if they could? He

Andy Andrews