Insult Quotes - Page 24

• Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?" she says. "Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.

  Veronica Roth

  Breakup, Practice, Choices

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• Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Daughter, Mother, Book

  "Specimen Days & Collect".

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• We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?

  Red Cloud

  Country, Giving Up, Father

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• Let's be honest: Ignoring is acting, and nothing more — acting as though the words or actions of your oppressors don't hurt. You hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows.

  Frank Peretti

  Hurt, Pain, Blow

  "No More Bullies: For Those Who Wound or Are Wounded".

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• 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.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Book, Destiny

  Tropic of Cancer ch. 1 (1934)

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• Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

  William Bennett

  Years, Once Upon A Time, Stories

  William J. Bennett (1993). “Book of Virtues”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

  Andre Gide

  People, Answers, Console

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• She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)

  Ned Vizzini

  Girl, Withering

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• Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?

  Richard Schultz

  Knowledge, Differences, Mind

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• I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

  Cleveland Amory

  Inspiration, Wells, Persons

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• Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?

  Geena Davis

  Stupid, Lessons

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• When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor.

  Matt Groening

  Hurt, Feelings, Honor

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• If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

  Matt Groening

  Funny, Humor, People

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• If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Growing Up, Southern

  1969 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, opening section.

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• Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.

  Dean Koontz

  Kissing, Thirteen

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• I always asked for forgiveness for my sins right away but I never accepted it until I felt right that I had suffered enough to pay for it. God revealed to me what I was doing how much unnecessary pain I was causing myself. He even showed me that what I was doing was an insult to Jesus that in essence I was saying Lord the sacrifice of Your life and blood was good but not good enough. I must add my work of feeling guilty before I can be forgiven.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Pain, Sacrifice

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• He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.

  Mario Puzo

  Powerful, Revenge, Humble

  "The Godfather".

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• Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

  Orson Scott Card

  Girl, Men, Asking

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Hart's Hope”, p.104, Macmillan

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• Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which ye call me names, insult my manhood, kick me in the ballocks and claw my face. Then I beat you half to death and tell ye all the most humiliating things have ever happened to me, and ye say ye love me." He laid his head on his knees and laughed some more. Finally he rose and held out a hand to me, wiping his eyes with the other. "You're no verra sensible, Sassenach, but I like ye fine. Let's go.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Eye, Hands, Names

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.320, Dell

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• You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.

  John Steinbeck

  Get Well, Thinking, People

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.233, Penguin

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• In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Book, Sunset

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

  Bernie Mac

  Laughing, Flip, Needs

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• *Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the same things? Think carefully before you insult this book.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.203, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• ... I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very "hello trees, hello flowers." It was intended as an insult and it fulfilled its brief; I was insulted. I had little interest in greeting trees and flowers but nor did I treat life as a treadmill, on which it was vital to keep fleeing forward in order to avoid being sucked off the back and out of the game.

  Marian Keyes

  Flower, Order, Games

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