Despise Quotes - Page 11

• I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

  Adam Savage

  Knowing, Tools, Pace

  "Inside Adam Savage's Toolbox" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. August 22, 2012.

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• A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Ocean, Evil, World

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.66

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• It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

  Martial

  Real, Adversity, Fortitude

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• In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
  [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

  Martial

  Adversity, Bravery, Easy

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• The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greatness, Men, Good Man

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• There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Past, Men, Miracle

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.63

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• Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

  Francis Bacon

  Hate, Believe, Despair

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.352

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• You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

  Marcel Duchamp

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Pain, Soul, Injury

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• A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

  Ambrose

  Humility, Years, Giving

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• The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.

  Rob Nilsson

  People, Giving, Guy

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• False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Father, Understanding

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• A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.

  David Deida

  Men, Quality, May

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• We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Men, World, Earth

  Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.13

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• Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument. Doing voice work is also great because you don't have to get your hair done, which I despise.

  Felicia Day

  Hair, Voice, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You're watching your kids playing football and you're not present. It's like the worst... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with.

  Andy Serkis

  Football, Struggle, Kids

  "Andy Serkis: From Gollum to Ian Dury". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• Every Democrat constituency group has at least two things in common. They hate us. They despise opposition. That's why they created political correctness. Speech censorship. They hate opposition and they'll do anything they can to eliminate it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Two, Political

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• Liberals despise the rule of law because it interferes with their ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful. But it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone.

  Ann Coulter

  Powerful, Law, Suffering

  Ann Coulter (2011). “Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America”, p.225, Crown Forum

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• Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Source: slushpile.net

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• As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Men, Darkness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1837). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think”, p.97

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• The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Passion, Mean

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• Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Duplicity, Simplicity, World

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• Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Duplicity, Desire

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• Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Real, Heart

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• I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.

  John Lennon

  Hate, Army, Police

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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