Quotes About Being Mocked

#1. Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I've never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I've seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.

Scott Adams

#2. You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

M. Night Shyamalan

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

Stephen Fry

#4. I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

Wallace Shawn

#5. Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.

Pope Francis

#6. Nothing had spared her from being mocked for wetting her pants, not even the fact that she had rushed to the delegado's aid.

Laura Esquivel

#7. It was fine to be mocked or disliked on his own terms. But his sexual orientation was such a naked target, unfortified by nonchalance and lacking the benefit of being a persona he'd constructed. Gay Mark wasn't sheddable like Smart-Ass Mark or Bitter-About-the-Move Mark.

Lisa Henry

#8. People grow and change. You have to choose to grow and change together. It doesn't mean the feeling isn't still there. You just have to work at it a little harder.

S. Walden

#9. People need to feel safe to talk without their ideas being criticized, judged, demeaned, or mocked.

Timothy Carey

#10. Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.

Raheel Farooq

#11. My pitching in 'Dazed and Confused' was so bad that they had to use cut-ins with a stunt double, and I spent most of that filming night being ruthlessly mocked by a team of Little League extras.

Wiley Wiggins

#12. The toughest part about riding a horse is overcoming the urge to eat it.

Brian South

#13. The President was in seventh heaven when he heard himself being teased like this; he strutted about and thrust his chest out; never did a man of the robe stick out his neck so far, not even one who has just hanged a man.

Marquis De Sade

#14. Think about what would happen if Indiana Jones and Google Earth had a love child. I use high-resolution and NASA satellites and look for subtle differences on the surface of the earth that locate buried ancient pyramids and towns and ancient tombs, which we then go and excavate.

Sarah Parcak

#15. Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

Charles Studd

#16. I enjoy my time alone.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#17. Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish ... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.

Viggo Mortensen

#18. Aware of how often she hides her good qualities because she is afraid of being misunderstood or mocked, she accuses herself of being uncharitable, supercilious,

Francine Prose

#19. In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.

Betty Hill

#20. Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Albert Camus

#21. It's so hard being handsome, isn't it?" I mocked him.
But he nodded and shrugged. "Sometimes I ask God why, but then I realize someone has to show the world the perfect male specimen. Why not me?

Amelia LeFay

#22. He, being hacked and cut for three solid quarters of an hour by the vigorous hands that had taken charge of his education, was soon nothing but a single wound, from which blood spurted out on all sides.

Marquis De Sade

#23. When Friedrich Nietzsche mocked Immanuel Kant for having "discovered a moral faculty in man", he inadvertently resolved Kant's dilemma of being unable to identify what exactly constituted his "moral law" for fear of offending against a charge of empiricism from the likes of David Hume.

Joseph B.H. McMillan