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Tag Name "Despised" (166)

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
Jonathan Swift
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And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
Margaret Cavendish
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Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside. My stomach coiled whenever I smelled food that was about to be served to somebody else, knowing it wasn't for me.
Dave Pelzer
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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them in the next they despised them.
Laozi
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These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.
Virginia Woolf
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
Seneca the Younger
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Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
Andrew Sullivan
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I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.
Koren Zailckas
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns
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What you have despised in yourself as a thorn opens into a rose.
Rumi
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The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.
Marshall McLuhan
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one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now
Mary Ann Shaffer
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You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.
Khalil Gibran
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You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.
Scott Stapp
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There are many reasons why the Russians prefer Donald Trump.I think, in the first instance, they wanted to tear down Secretary Clinton. They, I think, despised her remarks about the flawed 2011 elections in Russia. They feared that she would be very tough on Russia in terms of sanctions.
Adam Schiff
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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected if not, they will be despised.
Thomas Paine
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Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I have been despised by better men than you.
George R. R. Martin
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Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.
Wangechi Mutu
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
Giacomo Casanova
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