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“the path your life is stuck on and be free It's a dark whisper calling to me. But I'm not brave enough to listen. I'm old enough to know I don't have any special talents. So no matter how depressing... I have to suck it up... And live the life I have.”

Work Sad Existentialism Existential Career Disparaging Fatalistic

Book:Solanin

Source: Solanin

“Managing disparaging remarks in marriage is a reason for low carriage.”

Marriage Disparaging Managing Emotions Carriage

Book:Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.”

People Thinking Made Excited Comment Mcdonalds Flipped Disparaging

Author:Ron Pope

“I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.”

Ends Faces Hate Crime Receiving Remarks Hate Crime Disparaging

Author:Carol Anshaw

“I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.”

Thinking Needs Persons Helping Healthy Normal Weak Suicide Commit Pointing Healthy Person Disparaging

Author:Jesse Ventura

“It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.”

Way Effort Design Evolution Treats Intelligent Intelligent Design Disparaging

Author:Barry W. Lynn

“One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.”

People Thinking Littles Culture Locals Tourism Disparaging

Author:Paul Theroux

“Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity group. Yet, to most movie industries a film which offends millions of Christians is fine and dandy.”

“This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore.”

Earth Difficult Practice Support Creative Realization Transition Difficult Times Disparaging

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.”

Past Roles Crosses Taboo My Past Disparaging

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?”

“He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.”

Doe Glory Injury Reverence Sects Disparaging

Author:Ashoka

“Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a very dear daughter-in-law who's Japanese. I don't know what she's going to make of the film, but I say a few disparaging things.”

Knows Wells Happens Running Film Law Daughter Dear Chinese Asian In-laws Vietnamese Thai Disparaging Daughter In Law

Author:Jacki Weaver

“I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.”

People Deals Serious Creating Strategy Threat Our Time Attacking Disparaging

Author:Jeb Bush

“Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when you say "pathetisch" in German it's just a description, not necessarily negative. That says a lot already.”

Term Negative Description Pathetic Pathos Disparaging

Author:Daniel Kehlmann

“So, I think it's important for us to be careful about the language we use, which is why I've been critical of Donald Trump. Disparaging women, disparaging hispanics, that's not a sign of strength. Making fun of disabled people... We're never going to win elections if we don't have a more broader unifying message.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Use Winning Language Fun Trump Messages Election Careful Critical Be Careful Disabled Unifying Disparaging

Author:Jeb Bush

“Donald Trump talks us down. He makes disparaging comments about America. He calls our military a disaster. Well, it's not, but it might have been if everybody else had failed to pay taxes to support our brave men and women in uniform.”

Ifs Men Wells Has Beens Might America Pay Support Military Trump Taxes Men And Women Brave Disaster Comment Uniforms Might Have Been Brave Man Disparaging

Author:Hillary Clinton

“You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what [Donald Trump] does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.”

Knows Doe Mystery Trump Negative Disparaging

Author:Errol Morris

“Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.”

States Care Law President United United States Reform Health Care Titles Accurate Obamacare Affordable Health Care Reform Affordable Care Act Disparaging

Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz

“When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.”

Men Envy Be Good Disparaging

Author:Tacitus

“I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible?”

Men Said Different President Christ Race Color Skins Assuming Righteous Disciple Remarks Priesthood Different Colors Disparaging

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“This is a, uh, friendship ring right?” “Yeah, don’t worry. If I propose, you’ll know it. For one thing, I’ll be hyperventilating.” A sly smile—surprisingly sexy—turned up his lips. “And it’ll be a ruby.” “Rubies? No diamonds? Too expensive for the old writer’s salary, huh?” He made a disparaging grunt at that. “No, I just think diamonds are common, that’s all. If I get married, it’ll be because something uncommon is occurring. Besides, you wear a lot of red, right? I know how important it is for your accessories to match.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Made Important Common Worry Know How One Thing Married Red Yeah Lips Sexy Rings Expensive Diamond Salary Propose Uncommon Accessories Sly Rubies Grunt Succubus Disparaging

Author:Richelle Mead

“Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?” James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like my dad.” Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. “Got a problem with that?” “No,” said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. “If you’d rather be brawny than brainy —” “Where’re you hoping to go, seeing as you’re neither?” interjected Sirius.”

Ifs Heart Made Said Problem Choices Seeing Dad Brave My Dad Invisible Noise Headings Sneer Snape Sirius Disparaging Gryffindor

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them... A religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.”

Reason Reality Belief Religious Records Atheism Dignity Bases Creeds Religious Belief Belief Systems Disparaging

Author:Martin Amis

“No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.”

Men Want May Has Beens Stills Seems Remember Mother Speak Women Lows Respect Daughter Men And Women Every Man Sister Respect Women Women Bashing Disparaging Suffragists

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.”

Source: Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon

“Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits a sin before you at the very moment of his death, pass no judgment, because the judgment of God is hidden from men. It has happened that men have sinned greatly in the open but have done greater deeds in secret, so that those who would disparage them have been fooled, with smoke instead of sunlight in their eyes.”

“I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he has indeed failed in some way, his wife’s disparaging words compound the disaster exponentially. Her cynicism is utterly emasculating, and many times, incredibly subtle. Like a fine, thin blade, it slices deep, penetrating to the very core of his masculine soul.”

Ifs Way Soul Wife Fine Husband Core Disaster Subtle Cynicism Ministry Masculine Blades Compounds Saddest Belittle Disparaging

Author:Stu Weber

“The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.”

Mean Eye Courses Literature Copies Headlines Gleam Telegraph Feuds Disparaging

Author:Leslie Charteris

“Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.”

Kind Turns Sound Amount Advertising Sarcasm Toms Insulting Like Something Wry Disparaging Hee Haw

Author:Tom Bodett

“No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Self Seems Courses Wonder Hell Strive Casts Likes Reasonable Our Future Glances Disparaging Future Self

Book:Stumbling on Happiness

Source: Stumbling on Happiness

“But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.”

Hands Idols Those We Love Love Always Disparaging

Book:Madame Bovary - Interactive Bilingual Edition (English / French): A Classic of French Literature from the prolific French writer, known for Salammbô, Sentimental Education, Bouvard et Pécuchet, November and Three Tales

Source: Madame Bovary - Interactive Bilingual Edition (English / French): A Classic of French Literature from the prolific French writer, known for Salammbô, Sentimental Education, Bouvard et Pécuchet, November and Three Tales