Quotes About Being Maligned

#1. The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.

Fred F. Fielding

#2. The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.

Gary Haugen

#3. Evangelicals are experts at adopting heroes, since their community produces so few with both moral standing and intellectual firepower.

Frank Schaeffer

#4. Ana was a perpetual victim in a never-ending search for a victimizer.

Travis Luedke

#5. What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back ... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.

John F. Kerry

#6. You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that after reading a decade of student stories.

Dan Chaon

#7. Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

Cecelia Ahern

#8. The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and '80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.

Noah Feldman

#9. Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.

Stephen Fry

#10. Deep pain awakens the pleasure of wonder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. If you're serious about improving your play, be brutally honest with yourself.

Greg Norman

#12. Hey can mean anything. It can mean yes, it can mean maybe, it could mean no, it could mean next week. Hey, the bottom line is you have to understand me to understand hey.

Si Robertson

#13. I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'.

Richard Armitage

#14. It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

Jimmy Wales

#15. Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

Clint Walker

#16. I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me, and not the outside.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#17. I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.

Eleanor Catton

#18. I'm being unjustly maligned!

Richard D. Meyer

#19. None of us is fully able to perceive the truth that shines through another person's window, nor the falsehood that we may perceive as truth. Thus, we can easily mistake another's good for evil, and our own evil for good.

Forrest Church