I Quotes
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“I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.”
“I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.”
“I despise shopping and department stores.”
“I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.”
“I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.”
“I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.”
“I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.”
“I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.”
“I despise the fact that the youth today acts as if being youthful is the answer to everything. It's a very young minded perspective and if you're not smart enough to realize that in life evolution is real. What that means is, we all are evolving and getting older every second of the day. That means it's about what you know, what you do and how hard you press the button to make it go. If you're not willing to put it in the time, energy and work in, then it doesn't matter how young you are. You'll be here and gone tomorrow if you don't learn something.”
“I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.”
“I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.”
“I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.”
“I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.”
Source: Letters
“I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].”
“I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.”
Source: Babe in Boyland
“I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.”
Source: The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel
“I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I just can't stand that sort of thing, talking to God about some cutesy thing that he'd done during the day. I don't think Hank Ketcham has any deep knowledge of things like that.”
“I despise Wednesdays! They are the Marquis de Sade of the work week. Wednesday are so awful that...wait..what? It's Thurs? (face-palm)”
“I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.”
Source: Enemies at Home
“I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.”
“I despised my father, of course I did. The thought of presenting myself to him, of him thinking that my deeds could reflect on him was repulsive, that he thought what I would do would be a substitute for the son he'd never had, that he imagined that I would go back and take that place. I flung the thin woolen blankets aside, thinking I would set out into the darkness, out run my anger until I was gasping and breathless. But somehow, my feet took me to Parthenopaeus..”
Source: Atalanta
“I despised myself for feeling ambivalent about his loss because he had been among those who had ‘looked the other way’ until the scourge touch his own flesh”
Source: Requiem for a Woman's Soul
“I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.”
Source: The love of a good woman: stories
“I després de tot, ¿què? Ens hem de morir. No hi ha més remei.”
Source: Aforismes
“I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my reason. I have found levels in the realm of the nerve. I now feel capable of evaluating the evidence. There is for me an evidence in the realm of pure flesh which has nothing to do with the evidence of reason. The eternal conflict between reason and the heart is decided in my very flesh, but in my flesh irrigated by nerves.”
“I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.”
“I destroy the image after I've made it, obliterate it a little so you never have it completely there.”
“I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.”
“I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.”
“I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.”
“I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.”
“I detach myself from preconceived outcomes and trust that all is well. Being myself allows the wholeness of my unique magnificience to draw me in those directions most beneficial to me and to all others. This is really the only thing I have to do. And within that framework, everything that is truly mine comes into my life effortlessly, in the most magical and unexpected ways imaginable, demonstrating every day the power and love of who I truly am.”
“I detect more good than evil in humanity.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes,
And men grow better as the world grows old.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“I detect the activist returning with a vengence.”
Source: Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“I deteriorate. I might tell you something one day and then something else another day. You fold in on yourself and that's why this whole artistry thing is the devil. It's evil. I hope I don't succumb to it.”
“I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.”
“I determine what I will do and do; I decide, and nobody changes it, they just shape my ways of thinking.”
“I determined long ago that dwelling on bitterness is not for me. I have set aside the demons once plaguing me, and made peace with my past.”
Source: The Engraver's Secret
“I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.”
“I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.”
“I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.”
“I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.”
“I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating.”
“I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.”
“I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.”
“I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.”
“I detest goodbyes. That is, with people I like.”
Source: Cali the Destroyer
“I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.”
Source: At the sweet hour of hand in hand