Disdains Quotes

#1. You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become.

Colleen Houck

#2. I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

James A. Michener

#3. A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

Robert Greene

#4. Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. I feel forever young.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

Mason Cooley

#8. Flame was the way, in the Dells, to send the bodies of the dead where their souls had gone, into nothingness. To respect that all things ended, except the world.

Kristin Cashore

#9. The fact that Nellie wasn't any one person but rather a composite of three of the real Laura's antagonists' worst traits makes her even more terrifying, some kind of blond Frankenstein assembled from assorted bitch parts.

Wendy McClure

#10. The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.

Friedrich Hayek

#11. Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

Sigmund Freud

#12. But a wild democracy ... too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

Edward Gibbon

#13. A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Khalil Gibran

#14. Fear of insignificance creates the result it dreads, arrives at the destination it tries to avoid, facilitates the scenario it disdains.

Max Lucado

#15. Sahara traced the ink with a trembling finger before she bent to press her lips to the tattoo, her touch tender, her eyes dark with emotion. "I've branded you".
"You did that a long time ago".

Nalini Singh

#16. For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.

Veronica Webb

#17. Not all developing countries are the same.

Paul Collier

#18. Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

Khalil Gibran

#19. Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

Willis Regier

#20. There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

Henry Fairlie

#21. One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.

Peter Tork

#22. Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It sees no distinction in adding story to story ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it ...

Abraham Lincoln

#23. He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

Ludwig Von Mises

#24. Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

William James

#25. A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

Helen Dunmore

#26. You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads - in particular, what he likes and what he disdains - as from what he writes himself.

Rodney Ulyate

#27. If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

Erica Jong

#28. Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

George Croly

#29. A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.

George Gissing

#30. Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains,
'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains:
And grant the bad what happiness they would,
One they must want
which is, to pass for good.

Alexander Pope

#31. He disdains such cowardly acts as looking in wing mirrors or using his indicators. His Ambassador is his chariot, his klaxon his sword. Weaving into the oncoming traffic, playing 'chicken' with the other taxis, Balvinder Singh is a Raja of the Road.

William Dalrymple

#32. The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.

Alexander Hamilton

#33. The greatest and glorious masterpiece of a man is how to live with a purpose.

Michel De Montaigne

#34. Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

Fernando Pessoa

#35. Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways.

Pascal Mercier

#36. Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod.

David Foster Wallace

#37. We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

Barack Obama

#38. Who saves his country violates no law.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#39. He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.

Augusten Burroughs

#40. But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Nikolai Gogol

#41. The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Friedrich Nietzsche