Insult Quotes - Page 34

• While there's no 'I' in team, there's also no 'you', okay? So back off.

  Craig Kilborn

  Team, Okay

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• You know why you hate me so much, Jeffery? Because I look the way you feel.

  Joe Pesci

  Hate, Way, Looks

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• Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Eye, Thinking, Sight

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• The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

  Susan Sontag

  Life, Spiritual, Athlete

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• Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

  Mark Twain

  Lunch, Tea, Dinner

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• Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

  Dilys Laing

  Men, Tolerance, Gum

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• Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Being Thankful, Enemy, Helping

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 8”, p.49, M A Center

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• There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult.

  Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

  Truth, Truth Is, Persons

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• Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

  Linda Barnes

  Latin, Ghetto, Insults You

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Cold Case”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hands, Firm, Wells

  "Going Deep with Hall of Fame Quarterback Terry Bradshaw". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.

  Drake

  Compliment, Crashing Down, Millions

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• Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

  Alan Cohen

  Memories, Blessing, Long

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• Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

  Enoch Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Media

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• People having religions is an insult to the universe.

  Celia Green

  People, Universe

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Nobody's too fat - they're just too short.

  Sam Ewing

  Too Short, Fats

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• Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Running, Doe, Our Family

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• I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Vexation, Worn, Positive Atheism

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• Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

  Zane Grey

  Men, Six, Seven

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• No one can insult you without your permission.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Insults You, Permission

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• Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Lying, Love Is, Thinking

  Rachel Held Evans (2010). “Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions”, p.136, Harper Collins

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• The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.

  Fanny Kemble

  Husband, Children, Heart

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.6, University of Georgia Press

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• Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Support, Done

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• Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. v One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear nothing worse than that of Jesus, dying in torment, among the insults, the mockery, the curses of the whole nation. In the midst of these terrible sufferings, Jesus prays for his cruel murderers. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Jesus, Philosophy, People

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• Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Exercise, Imagination

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself).

  Terry Mosher

  Dog, Islamic, Apology

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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