Dismisses Quotes

#1. When patriarchy dismisses us, it encourages our murderers.

Audre Lorde

#2. A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Vernon Howard

#3. When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

Hyman Rickover

#4. Listen to the fleshbody," the dropwort retorts. "A mere seventeen turns of the seasons on this ancient earth of ours, and yet he dismisses us.

Maryrose Wood

#5. A great leader listens to other people's suggestions and opinions but a dogmatic leader dismisses them and sticks to his/her own decision.

Euginia Herlihy

#6. too - my god, what kind of brutal abomination dismisses the suffering of the majority of the world's population as worth sustaining a tiny number of pinheaded elites - is proof enough that we don't deserve a future. I

Lidia Yuknavitch

#7. Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.

William Ernest Henley

#8. The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

Christopher Lasch

#9. There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

Franz Kafka

#11. The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

John Updike

#12. I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only the prejudice and ignorance that dismisses any book, unread, as not worth reading."
"On Despising Genres," essay

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. When your family dismisses you, like Lotto's did, you create your own family

Lauren Groff

#14. Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

George Edward Moore

#15. But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

Michael Scott

#16. You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

Paul Keating

#17. The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?

Megan Chance

#18. Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down to the cafe. But anyone who sits in that cafe and dismisses complexity by reveling in their own simplicity is no less pretentious.

Michael Perry

#19. Cats, based on their corporeal existence, have a different view on trees even if one dismisses the fruit eating aspect. A closer look at common domestic feline behaviour makes these views spring forth like a kitten pouncing on a ball of yarn. It can be hard to miss.

Leviak B. Kelly

#20. I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery.

Brene Brown

#21. Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

Justin Welby

#22. Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

Greg Gutfeld

#23. When I look back at the Christian faith, I see that we have had to retranslate, almost reinvent ourselves a number of times.

John Shelby Spong

#24. Let's be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.

Valery Giscard D'Estaing

#25. I know you like the way I am freakin' it.
I talk with slang and I'm never gonna stop speakin' it.

Big L

#26. The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .

Ursula K. Le Guin

#27. The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

J. Irwin Miller

#28. Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian
that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

John Dryden

#29. The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has led me - not in my time, but in the time that it was meant to happen - to a place that I never in a million years could have imagined that I could go or become.

Suze Orman

#30. The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

Lykke Li