Detracting Quotes

#1. Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

Thomas A Kempis

#2. I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn.

Gordon Brown

#3. Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.

Criss Jami

#4. Whence proceeds this weight we lay
On what detracting people say?
Their utmost malice cannot make
Your head, or tooth, or finger ache;
Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face,
Or put one feature out of place.

Jonathan Swift

#5. Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

Livy

#6. No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

St. Jerome

#7. The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity."
"FYI, philosophy bores me."
"Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

J.R. Ward

#9. from that, there was nothing.

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. My integrity refuses to be altered to fit in with what I'm expected or intimidated to believe.

Lori Goodwin

#11. The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Roger Bannister

#12. In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down."- George Abbott

Austin Kleon

#13. I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#14. Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you, Logan said, Silver Frost.

Kailin Gow