Dismissing Quotes

#1. Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.

Richard Rohr

#2. But here's the thing - lying would have become useless thousands of years ago if countering it was as simple as dismissing the liars completely. The really good liars were like chemists, brewing formulas that were mostly truth, the toxins undetectable in the mixture.

David Wong

#3. I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

#4. By dismissing what could work, we dismiss our own growth. We dismiss what's possible.

Joe Vitale

#5. In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

Daniel Goleman

#6. I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

Steve Jobs

#7. Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

Bill Dedman

#8. Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

Iyanla Vanzant

#9. That deep longing that you keep dismissing as impractical, may be the very thing your soul is calling you to do.

Renae A. Sauter

#10. Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.

China Mieville

#11. You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Frank Hall Crane

#12. If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.

Gillian Flynn

#13. We often have very little empathy for our own thoughts and feelings and frequently try to suppress them by dismissing them as weaknesses.

Mark Williams

#14. The naysayers are not only casting doubt on science and nonbelievers; they are also ignoring the billions of non-conflicted believers around the world, dismissing their views as unworthy.

Bill Nye

#15. It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon.

Julian McMahon

#16. The Agora had fallen, too.
Vince turned the radio off, dismissing what they'd just heard, and merged onto I-87. A little shriek of madness sounded in the back of his brain, but he said, with admirable calm considering, Seriously, love, I think we've got this.

Erin Kellison

#17. Tansy started forward again, dismissing the two corpses like they didn't matter anymore. To her, I guess they didn't. The men were dead. They weren't any fun to play with once they were dead.

Mira Grant

#18. Just because we are capable of art didn't what lay in front of him could be dismissed as aberration, that we could take what we admired and fence that off as human, dismissing the rest as monstrous. The same hands committed both. Brains don't undermine the savagery. They made us better at it.

Michael Marshall

#19. This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

J. A. Hadfield

#20. Laughing at somebody is just another way of dismissing them, but laughing with somebody is a bridge to understanding.

Zach Anner

#21. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.

David Wong

#22. INSTEAD OF DISMISSING NEGATIVE FEELINGS ABOUT A SIBLING, ACKNOWLEDGE THE FEELINGS.

Adele Faber

#23. But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Victor Hugo

#24. I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

Stephen King

#25. Sex can be renounced
but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

Sallie Tisdale

#26. A man who will steal for me will steal from me. Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.

David McCullough

#27. She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#28. Looks are worth nothing, she thought, dismissing the butterflies in her stomach.

Jamie Le Fay

#29. You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

Carolyn Hax

#30. Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.

Rachel Maddow

#31. nothing there, except my normal specks of freckles. Dismissing it to my imagination, I grabbed my backpack and headed downstairs to get some breakfast. That's when

Jessica Sorensen

#32. A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

Gloria Steinem

#33. Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.

Edmund White

#34. Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.

Jessica Valenti

#35. art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. - Capt. J. A. Hatfield

David Allen

#36. Just dismissing them gave me a kind of power over them. That was the whole method of the con, even when I was conning myself. These

Andrew Klavan

#37. You ever wonder if it's really not more complicated than that?" I ask. "That maybe everyone else is right, and people like you and me just need to quit looking for stuff to be depressed about?" She looks up, and then back at her dirt, dismissing this stupidity without comment. When

Matthew Norman

#38. What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then - with great forgiveness and fortitude - dismissing them.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#39. Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great loss to the doctor as well as to the public.

Andrew Saul

#40. For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

Rachel Cusk

#41. Ignorance," he rejoined, sounding cross. "You modern people live in your own version of the Dark Ages, dismissing anything you can't understand. If the relic didn't stop him, what the hell did?

Sylvain Reynard

#42. True friendship is when you are able to build walls of protection around your friends by dismissing every back biting towards them.

Euginia Herlihy

#43. Dismissing without further investigation something that conflicts with what is already known is the very heart of rationality.

Barry Stroud

#44. wether I ought not to punish him by dismissing him at once after this reconciliation, or by marrying and teazing him for ever.

Jane Austen

#45. Everything that he was saying sounded incredible, but Frank knew enough about politics to know that governments got away with what they did because they counted on ordinary citizens dismissing events as being too incredible and implausible.

Thrity Umrigar

#46. Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I'm not dismissing that by any regard.

John Ridley

#47. A woman's love is strange and cruel and nearly always clear-sighted, love that sees is always horrible love, and she knew walking away was right and so she walked, dismissing the cries as only another part of the boy's development, like smiles from gas or scraped knees.

Stephen King

#48. Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly "inferior" capacity to feel deeply. But in this way also, men deny themselves their own essential humanity, becoming trapped in dependency and fear.

Audre Lorde

#49. Families, real ones, are chairs and tables and the right number of cups, but I had no means of joining one, and no means of dismissing my own.

Jeanette Winterson

#50. The erosion of an effective patient-physician relationship has no place when dealing with chronic pain. Worst of all, dismissing the patient's pain is as devastating as crushing a patient's hope.

Melissa Cady

#51. I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

Benjamin Clementine

#52. It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.

Indra Devi

#53. I think digital media is a valid tool, one that has it's own strengths and weaknesses. So often I see people dismissing digital art as somehow cheating or not as valid or important as traditional art, but the computer is just another tool.

Julie Dillon