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  • What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

    Wise   Revenge   Blow  
  • I went to Jerusalem, the dead sea, it was just amazing. Because what we see in the TV, I'm sorry to say it, I don't want to insult nobody, but a lot of the image that we see from the middle east in Canada - It's sad to say but it's always bad stuff. I was thinking coming here it would be a lot of military, security, everybody would be a little more on the edge, but I see it's amazing. It feels a little bit similar to Miami.

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  • Unfortunately, I saw a side of humanity I wish I'd remained blissfully ignorant of, including one driver who threw a bottle at me while I was walking my baby to the doctor on the side of the road and yelled out insults. Nurses who made nasty comments about how I should get a job (I was working two of them, in addition to being a published author). It wasn't that I didn't have a job and wasn't working. The jobs in backwoods Mississippi didn't pay enough to cover living expenses.

    Baby   Jobs   Two  
    "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.
  • I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

    Funny   Dull   Insult  
    1860 The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol.1.
  • Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”
  • (I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.

    War   Integrity   Moving  
  • To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.

    "A Lot like Love" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. April 22, 2005.
  • Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats. If we tackle these problems now, we buy ourselves time to work on climate change.

    Ocean   Habitat   Damage  
  • Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.

  • A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

    Wise   Patience   Wisdom  
  • The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.

  • Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

  • A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will.

    Art   Book   Character  
    Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

    Sight   People   Singing  
    "Reality Check: 'Bikini Girl' Brings Out the Fight in New 'Idol' Judge Kara DioGuardi" by Diane Macedo, www.foxnews.com. January 14, 2009.
  • I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

    Drunk   Musician   Insult  
  • What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people.

    Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.
  • It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

    Clever   Insult   Said  
    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.223, Simon and Schuster
  • Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.

    Thinking   People   Might  
  • And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

    Insult   Please   Offense  
    Gena Showalter (2009). “Seduce the Darkness”, p.285, Simon and Schuster
  • And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

    Mother   Eye   World  
    Joyce Carol Oates (1990). “I Lock My Door Upon Myself”, New York : Ecco Press
  • On average, once a month for the last 10 years since her [Harper Lee] stroke, we have sat and talked and told stories and exchanged insults... Which she loves. I think one secret to our friendship was I did not treat her like a marble woman, and my wife - I joked with her, and I joked with her, and that was the sort of contours of our friendship.

  • 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.

    Islam   Cartoon   Insult  
    FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 24, 2013
  • Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

    Soul   Insult   Your Soul  
    Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.39
  • Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

    Tyrants   Insult   Slave  
    Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.276, Northwestern University Press
  • The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

    Philosophy   Men   Order  
  • Fascism is not just a word. It`s not just a way to insult someone with whom you disagree. It is a specific thing. It is a specific form of far right politics that involves a sort of narcissistic cult of superman action around the leader of the party.

  • So…that’s like your pet monkey?” – Nick (The tiny horse snorted flames and whinnied at him.) “Easy, girl. You’d do well to show her respect. She can understand you, and she doesn’t take well to insults.” – Death “Sorry, Flicka. Didn’t mean to rattle your bridle.” – Nick

    Girl   Horse   Sorry  
  • We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

    Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”
  • There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

    Funny   Science   Fire  
    "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.
  • I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

    Pain   Causes   Insult  
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