Snubbing Quotes

#1. It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

E. M. Forster

#2. You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

Hilary Mantel

#3. Success doesn't come overnight and there's certain things you can't do. I've missed so many weddings, christenings and birthdays, but I know all my family are there behind me, wanting me to do really well and it was worth the sacrifice.

Jenny Meadows

#4. JEAN
Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one!
COLONEL
Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common.

Preston Sturges

#5. Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

Trent Lott

#6. Racism is a visual pathology.

Adrian Piper

#7. Two doctorates. My mother would be so happy. If you didn't have a dick.

K.A. Mitchell

#8. I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea ... and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Frank Herbert

#9. What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

Plato

#10. There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.

Danica McKellar

#11. As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

Harper Lee