Perceived Slights Quotes

#1. When resentment and contention threatened to destroy his administration, he refused to be provoked by petty grievances, to submit to jealousy, or to brood over perceived slights. Through the appalling pressures he faced day after day, he retained an unflagging faith in his country's cause.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#2. Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

George F. Will

#3. Tyra's always standing up for herself and her "race" over perceived slights. For example, she'll say, "You just pushed me because I'm black!" No, I pushed you because the train was coming right at you, you bulimic twit.

Joan Rivers

#4. If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

Roger Ebert

#5. Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Jamie Dimon

#6. I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

Susan B. Anthony

#7. Factitiousness of society freezes the stars.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#8. The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#9. In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

Ellen Langer