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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.
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.
If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.
I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
I've taken a lot of crap. That's just the way life is. There are going to be writers who like you and writers who despise you.
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion.
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.
Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.
I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.
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.
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.
People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States.
Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.
I still love my dad and appreciate what he's done for me, but I despise some of the things he has done to the family and certainly to my mum.
I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.