Obloquy Quotes

#1. And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,
And the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.

Sarah Williams

#2. I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

Jack Vance

#3. Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Jonathan Swift

#4. As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

John Lancaster Spalding

#5. Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

Theodor Herzl

#6. The day is declining through the white afternoon to the long blue spring evening. He drives past a corner where someone is practicing on a trumpet

John Updike

#7. Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

Hermann Hesse

#8. Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

Margaret Way

#9. Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

Morrie Ryskind

#10. There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone

Jerry Garcia

#11. My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off.

Leo Buscaglia

#12. The sound Noah made when he speared him with his tongue sent Cameron from hard and twitching to gotta fuck or die.

K.A. Mitchell

#13. The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

John W. Snow

#14. Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian.

Shahrukh Khan

#15. We should seek neither to escape suffering nor to suffer less, but to remain untainted by suffering.

Simone Weil

#16. Very impressive. Where did you learn that?
Made it up just now.

John Flanagan

#17. She was also damn cute. Not beautiful or stunningly pretty, but she was cuter than any girl with that much attitude had a right to be, and somehow the bouquet of flowers that colored her skin in every shape and variety seemed like it belonged there.

Jay Crownover

#18. Now, the people that helped get Obama elected, who think Israel is a good idea, need to wake up and tell him they're our friends, let's preserve them. And then it would happen. Because that's the only kind of thing he responds to. But he throws our friends under the bus and rewards our enemies.

Louie Gohmert