Affront Quotes - Page 2

• If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Students, Lows, Bigs

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (1993). “The Peaceable Classroom”, Boynton/Cook

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• Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Sorrow, Sin

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• Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.

  Giles Fraser

  Dare, Liberalism

  "No, I am not a liberal - I believe that community comes before the individual" by Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

  Claude Debussy

  People, Strikes, Seems

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• Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.

  Scott Anderson

  Military, Fighting, Men

  Scott Anderson (2014). “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”, p.276, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere...
  I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture.

  George W. Bush

  Law, Government, Community

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• All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Soul, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.

  Friedrich Engels

  Revenge, People, Use

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• While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar's transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other.

  Ted Cruz

  Gay, Differences, Age Difference

  "On the internet, you can never be quite sure who said what" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

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• Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

  Mark Twain

  Lunch, Tea, Dinner

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• ...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Night, Breathing

  Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.

  Jen Lancaster

  Best Effort, Perfect, Tiny

  Jen Lancaster (2006). “Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office”, p.17, Penguin

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• Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger of falling in love, and were it not for his considerable skill in the deadly arts, that he should be in danger of being bested by hers--for never had he seen a lady more gifted in the ways of vanquishing the undead.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Falling In Love, Art, Skills

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.49, Quirk Books

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• We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

  Javier Marías

  Memories, May, Form

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• Right, then, mate, terribly sorry for my unspeakable rudeness, and I do beg your pardon. I can only say that it was caused by my natural affront to the notion of her as my sister. Since I'll be shagging her tonight, you can imagine how I'd be distressed at the thought of rogering my sibling" "You shmuck! The only thing you'll be shagging tonight is yourself!" "You wanted sincerity, well, luv, I was sincere.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sorry, Sibling, Tonight

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• A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

  Judith McNaught

  Lying, Soul, Insult

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Something Wonderful”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Rain, Wind, House

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• Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Obamacare, Aspect

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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Enemy, Meat, Pork

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Adventure, Men, Anxiety

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• Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Astrology, Light

  "The Real Romance in the Stars". www.independent.co.uk. December 31, 1995.

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• If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the immensely rich and the miserably poor, the have-nots deprived even of essentials and people who thoughtlessly waste what others so desperately need. Such countries are an affront to the dignity of the human person. He further said, Ethics demand that systems be attuned to the needs of man, and not that man be sacrificed for the sake of the system.

  Pope John Paul II

  Country, Men, People

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• I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe, I'm not so perfect as is the affront I oft put on. After all, the lyric is 'I wish I was special'. I truly just want to be loved and accepted, I think, like all humans.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Race, Perfect

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• As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Pride, Idols, Long

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• These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Humanity, September 11, Criminals

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