Top 20 Quotes About Invidious
#1. The twilight seems invidious.It simply can't let the sun hide away when darkness is just another name for night..
Munia Khan
#2. Though it might be invidious to mention individuals, yet I may be allowed to say how much I owe to the constant help of my wife, not quite my first, but much my most consistent collaborator, and over the longest period of years.
Robert Robinson
#3. I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric ...
John Dryden
#4. What was at all events not permanently hidden from him was a truth much less invidious about his years of darkness. It was the strange scheme of things again: the years of darkness had been needed to render possible the years of light.
Henry James
#5. This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
Arundhati Roy
#6. Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid of, but as images that we cannot get rid of, that we have to live with.
W. J. T. Mitchell
#7. Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several - and I won't - who put themselves in that invidious position.
Peter Hargreaves
#8. She lives with man on terms of equality, knows nothing of that relation of status which is the ancient basis of all distinctions of worth, honor, and repute, and she does not lend herself with facility to an invidious comparison between her owner and his neighbors.
Thorstein Veblen
#10. Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
Pliny The Elder
#11. If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man
not to make any invidious comparison
is always sold to the institution which makes him rich ... Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.
Thorstein Veblen
#13. We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.
Neal A. Maxwell
#14. In a sense the U.S. is climate illiterate. If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change even in Brazil, China you have more people who know about the problem and think deep cuts in emission are needed.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
#15. I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the horrible things we are capable of and also the heroic things. I'm really interested in exploring that side of human nature.
Veena Sud
#16. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.
Eric Hoffer
#17. Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
Dale Carnegie
#18. I've noticed a surge when I go out somewhere, or if I'm doing stand-up.
Kevin Nealon
#19. People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
Pearl Bailey
#20. I'm sorry, I mouthed to him before I said out loud, The file's exactly where it should be. Stuck so far up your ass that it'll never see the light of day again.
Aimee Carter
