Insult Quotes - Page 18

• Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

  Neil Gaiman

  Perfectly Good, Teeth, Arseholes

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• You take care and I hope I'll run into you - when I'm driving.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Running, Care, Driving

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• When a husband says, "I run things in my home" he may mean the washing machine, the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner.

  Sam Ewing

  Running, Husband, Home

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• Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Intellectual, Criticism

  "Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding".

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• My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness—what old and hard-worked staleness, masquerading as the all-new!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dirty, Cabbage, Juice

  Letter to Aldous and Maria Huxley, 15 August 1928, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 2

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• Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Character, Civilization, Abortion

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• To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Thought Provoking, Matter, Pay

  Robert McAfee Brown (1983). “Elie Wiesel, messenger to all humanity”

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• Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

  Edouard Manet

  Pouring, Comeback, Hail

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• It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Would Be, Looks

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• Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

  Robert McKee

  Lying, Meaning Of Life, Emotion

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• Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Dirt, Comeback

  Phoenix "Pornography and Obscenity" ch. 3 (1936)

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• Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future.

  Beverly Engel

  Being Yourself, Hurt, Speaking Up

  Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

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• When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Insults You, Evil, Meditation

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• To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.

  Dave Hunt

  Prayer, Rejection, Grace

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• She's so ugly, the tide wouldn't take her out.

  Martin Kaye

  Ugly, Tides

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• It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey

  Pregnancy, Sickness, Imagine

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey (1873). “What Women Should Know: A Woman's Book about Women, Containing Practical Information for Wives and Mothers”, p.165

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• It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head by a 90 mph fastball, the pitcher coming off of the mound to stomp me with her cleats while I am down, the rest of the opposing team rushing out of the dugout hurling insults as they kick me and spit on me, while all along the crowd in the stands is cheering them on and laughing at my failure. So, no, it's not the fear of striking out that keeps me from stepping up to the plate.

  Jim Copeland

  Cheer, Fear, Team

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• To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

  Ruth Rendell

  Character, Cutting, Christie

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• I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Use, Problem, Pleasure

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• The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.

  Eileen Myles

  Sex, Mean, Past

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• To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Politics, Sailor

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• Wisdom eventually comes to all of us. Someday it might even be your turn.

  Leigh Eddings

  Might, Someday, Turns

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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• "Tell me, doctor, " said the patient, "when I stand on my head, the blood rushes to it. Why doesn't it rush to my feet now?" "That's because your feet aren't empty," said the doctor.

  Sam Ewing

  Doctors, Blood, Feet

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• The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Moving, Insulting, Pedestal

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• Beauty is there to be noticed. Too often it is taken for granted because we are moving too fast to let it in and allow it to deliver its message in us. We need to pay attention. To show indifference to beauty is an insult to its Creator.

  Luci Shaw

  Beauty, Moving, Taken

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