Quotes About Being Patronised

#1. That does not make me feel better."
He chuckled. "It doesn't?"
"No. I feel like the wallflower being patronised by the cool guy."
"You're not a wallflower."
"Says the cool guy.

Amy Andrews

#2. The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

John McPhee

#3. We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate.

Evgeny Morozov

#5. Insecurity is like herpes. It's not going anywhere. May as well learn to laugh at it.

Dov Davidoff

#6. He meant to marry her right from the train. Hurry up and come because he was about to turn into pure sugar thinking about her.

Zora Neale Hurston

#7. Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.

Bill Courtney

#8. Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

Chuck Hagel

#9. I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

Graham Norton

#10. One of the greatest theological challenges of our time is to move our worship beyond self-absorption.

Kelly M. Kapic

#11. Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.

Gregory Stock

#12. When a person gives, he loves the object of his giving more
and so love is planted and grows.

David J. Lieberman

#13. If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.

Jean Sibelius

#14. There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it.

Shiri Appleby

#15. Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Elie Wiesel

#16. The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships, or being patronised by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it.

Terry Pratchett