Insult Quotes - Page 34

• Nobody's too fat - they're just too short.

  Sam Ewing

  Too Short, Fats

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• Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Running, Doe, Our Family

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• I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Vexation, Worn, Positive Atheism

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• Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Exercise, Imagination

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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

  Mark Twain

  Lunch, Tea, Dinner

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• Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

  Dilys Laing

  Men, Tolerance, Gum

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• Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

  Alan Cohen

  Memories, Blessing, Long

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• If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.

  Robert Grudin

  Baby, Communication, Thinking

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want everybody to feel he has a chance to get into a game when he comes to the ballpark. I play guys when I want to so they'll be ready when I have to. I don't consider myself a motivator of players. I think it's an insult to a ballplayer to have to be motivated.

  Gene Mauch

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed.

  Harry Hopkins

  Inspiration, America, Answers

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• No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

  Richard Stallman

  Ideas, Church, Illegal

  "Political notes from 2007: January - April". Personal Website, www.stallman.org. March 01, 2007.

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• People having religions is an insult to the universe.

  Celia Green

  People, Universe

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult.

  Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

  Truth, Truth Is, Persons

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• Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

  Linda Barnes

  Latin, Ghetto, Insults You

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Cold Case”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hands, Firm, Wells

  "Going Deep with Hall of Fame Quarterback Terry Bradshaw". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.

  Drake

  Compliment, Crashing Down, Millions

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• I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.

  Michael Learned

  Love You, Mean, Television

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• I'm going to show you a technology today which takes insults and criticisms out of the airwaves. (Marshall puts on giraffe ears) With this technology, it will be impossible for you to hear criticisms, harsh remarks, or insults. All you can hear is what all people are ever saying, "please" and "thank you". What used to sound like criticism, judgment, or blame, you will see, are really tragic, suicidal expressions of "please".

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Suicidal, Technology

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• I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.

  Carrie Fisher

  New York, Simple, Drug Use

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

  James Wolcott

  Party, Reality, Tea

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• It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Making Love, Naked

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Absurdistan”, p.116, Granta Books

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• A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.

  David Ogilvy

  Wife, Shock, Moron

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• All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Running, Unforgivable Sin, Different

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• There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.

  Dennis Prager

  Islam, Cartoon, Muhammad

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 24, 2013

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• You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Country, Bars, Noses

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