Spurns Quotes

#1. I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

James Gates Percival

#2. Dad had turned conservative, but not in the way of the demonologists who sold us out for tenure and crumbs. More like a man who spurns the false talk of revolution for the humbler mission of resurrecting one soul at a time.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Ovid

#4. Behold the rich farm boy Malachy Burns
Who plays his pipe among the churns.
He's a coward, he's benighted,
He makes everyone feel slighted,
And all things but music he spurns.

Julia Glass

#5. She speaks much of her father; says she hears
There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;
Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
That carry but half sense.
(Ophelia)

William Shakespeare

#6. At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.?

Camille Paglia

#7. The path of light is self awaken.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

Jack Valenti

#9. Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Bill Wyman

#10. I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.

Wale

#11. These are the Rad (?) instruments that are dying out in India. So, it's going well and I think now we are increasing the number of kids we have taught and of course we are helping out with other things too. It's based in India now. [The idea is to] perfect it in one place and then we'll expand.

A.R. Rahman

#12. You two may not be able to communicate well enough to realize you are in agreement!

Jack Ito

#13. Living on steam isn't easy.

Jessica Fortunato

#14. A strong will to be yourself is an indomitable force.

Ken Robinson

#15. We cannot change anything in our past

Sunday Adelaja

#16. It is no wiser to taunt a man with words than to poke a wildcat with a stick.

Amanda Scott

#17. I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.

Robert H. Schuller

#18. In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Roman Jakobson