Insult Quotes - Page 30

• I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

  Toni Morrison

  People, Racist, Exclusion

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• Lemmings with suicide vests. It's kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they'd have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.

  Devin Nunes

  Suicide, Jumping, Lemmings

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• Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and there is no help coming, you become responsible. Prayer is irresponsible. To pray is just to avoid responsibility, to pray is to be lazy. To pray is just an escape. Buddha says effort is needed. It is an insult to pray.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Responsibility, Effort

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• Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

  Paul Feig

  Honesty, Dirty, Nuts

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• Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

  Stephen Fry

  Garden, Tree, Wickedness

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• Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

  Cordell Hull

  Funny, Epic, Rivers

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• It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

  Upton Sinclair

  Apology, Thinking, Insult To Injury

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• You should not bear insults.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Bears, Should

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense, basic logic and the presentation, I am pretty cool with it.

  Jim Ross

  Wrestling, Long, Common Sense

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• Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Unique, Hands

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

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• I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Crush, Errors, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out.

  Jaron Lanier

  Thinking, Yield, Circles

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.49, Vintage

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• I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations

  Lana Wood

  Trying, Want, Language

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• There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Insult To Injury, People, Forgiving

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.87, OUP Oxford

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• What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrific-ally witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Stupid, Party

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.35, Ballantine Books

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• My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

  George Washington

  Brave, Enemy, Satisfaction

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• If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

  Juvenal

  Insults You, Insulted, Ought

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• Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

  Margaret Deland

  Book, Sapphires, Reader

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• I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Dental Floss, Teeth

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• I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.

  Jean Cocteau

  Loyalty, Children, Light

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• The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Class, Names, Knowing

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.199

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• Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Goal, Action

  FaceBook post by Andy Andrews from Apr 14, 2017

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• Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Generations, May

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2011). “Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War”, p.131, Granta Books

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• 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.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sorry, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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• To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.

  Robin Sharma

  Life Is, Accepting, Force

  Robin Sharma (2004). “Discover Your Destiny with The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.54, Jaico Publishing House

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