Insult Quotes - Page 26

• Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

  Charles Studd

  Lying, Blood, Lame

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• The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.

  Anais Nin

  Fighting, Men, People

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• I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.

  Jon Bernthal

  Reading, Thinking, Russia

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.

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• It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

  Harper Lee

  Hurt, Thinking, Names

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

  William Blake

  Art, Ignorant, Individual

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.561, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.

  Paul Prudhomme

  People, Comeback, Restaurants

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• We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

  John Lithgow

  Should Have, Knowing, Charity

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.

  Beth Ditto

  Fun

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Donald Trump insult women. We've seen him rate women on their appearance, ranking them from one to ten. We've seen him embarrass women on TV and on Twitter. We saw him after the first debate spend nearly a week denigrating a former Miss Universe in the harshest, most personal terms. So yes, this is who Donald Trump is.

  Hillary Clinton

  Missing, Debate, Appearance

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

  Dan Fox

  Thinking, Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

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• I'm not making fun of it because I want to make fun of it. I'm making fun of it so I feel better. I don't want people to think any time there's a tragedy that I'm going to make a joke about it. It's only funny to me because it's personal to me. And that was always the goal. It wasn't to be this insult person.

  Pete Davidson

  Fun, Feel Better, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.

  Arundhati Roy

  Identity, India, Stills

  Source: progressive.org

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• The only thing I would advise young actors to do is prepare for the amount of adversity that you're going to come in contact with by choosing to be an actor because before you actually "made it" or get the skills, people are all not going to take you seriously, and many people will try to discourage you from it. Don't take any of their advice. Do it, and do it and do it. Remember the compliments. Forget the insults.

  Paulo Costanzo

  Adversity, People, Advice

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things. And I'm never mean-spirited. See, the word insult means some guy who's a real unkind human being. But I don't do that, because otherwise I wouldn't be headlining all these years, thank god, and all these people showing up to see me.

  Don Rickles

  Fun, Real, Mean

  "Don Rickles (1926 - 2017)". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 5, 2017.

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• Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

  Daniel Pipes

  Civilization, Comeback, Compromise

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• Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.” Dany met his stare. “I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo’s riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Queens, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1928, Bantam

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• Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Thinking, Insults You

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.14

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• Listen carefully to me. Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention...There is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by out intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Thinking, Differences

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• my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Taste, Facts

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• I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Ideas, Two

  Nora Roberts (2008). “The Pagan Stone”, p.201, Penguin

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• Trump is popular, Trump is big precisely because Republican voters are angry at establishment Republicans. And establishment Republicans keep giving these people reason to be mad by continuing to insult them, and by appearing to agree with Democrats on key issues a majority of Americans disagree with, from amnesty to whatever, economics, Obamacare, take your pick.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Keys, Obamacare, Issues

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You must be mistaken," Isabel said, unconcerned by the insult that the words carried. "I assure you i am not. Voluptas is nearly always portrayed wrapped in roses. If that were not enough, her faces confirms her identity." "You cannot tell a goddess from a face carved in marble," she scoffed. "You can tell Voluptas by her face." "I've never even heard of this goddess, and you know what she looks like?" "She is the goddess of sensual pleasure." Isabel's mouth fell open at the words. She could not think of a single thing to say in response. "Oh

  Sarah MacLean

  Thinking, Rose, Sensual

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

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Imagine going to the holy land in Israel, whether you're a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, and start carving up the mountain of Zion. It's an insult to our entire being. It's bad enough getting four white faces carved in up there [on Mount Rushmore], the shrine of hypocrisy.

  Russell Means

  Christian, Land, White

  Source: progressive.org

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