Insulting Quotes - Page 5

• People feel that building a rocket for Mars is an exciting project, but if you see the refugees around the world and the millions of homeless people, then for me it's insulting that people are fantasizing about leaving planet Earth and going wherever.

  Pedro Reyes

  People, Leaving, Earth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Horse, Silly, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• Let's stop insulting each other and really get to know people. I mean, have a few beers and go on a fishing trip, and you will find a friend who won't see the world the way you do, but where you can have a really good conversation about it.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Mean, Beer, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Who are you?" he asked. "I'm a shabti, of course!" The figurine rubbed his dented head. He still looked quite lumpish, only now he was a living lump. "Master calls me Doughboy, though I find the name insulting. You may call me Supreme-Force-Who-Crushes-His-Enemies!

  Rick Riordan

  Crush, Names, Enemy

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I'm interested in dismantling the distinction between masculine and feminine writing both because I think it's a false distinction and, I think, ultimately an insulting one. It's as insulting to men as it is to women. I'm not sure what masculine writing would look like - I assume some combination of Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver. Writing can't be gendered in that way.

  Katie Kitamura

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I visited North Korea in November 2014, is that Kim Jong-un is not merely the head of state of the DPRK - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea - he's also their deity. So, when you insult him as the head of state, you're also insulting the deity, which of course the regime plays to a fare-thee-well to the domestic audience there.

  James R. Clapper

  November, Democratic, North Korea

  Source: www.politico.com

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• First, at a certain point, I wanted to have my own magazine, but I never could. Why? Because I am not commercial enough. The people who would have been able to give me my own magazine, they were not insulting me, but they would simply say, "It wouldn't work for you." And that was a big disappointment to me.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Disappointment, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

  Jane Austen

  Character, Pride, Offending

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.127

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• They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spiders, Stones, Angry

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's a lot of other [than Donald Trump] people that say things you may call insulting, but no one seems to care about that.

  Joe Arpaio

  People, Care, May

  "Transcript: Sheriff Joe Arpaio interviewed by Jorge Ramos on Univision". "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 29, 2016.

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• At least George W. Bush feels like - and I've heard him say it - "You can't judge me now, because look at Abraham Lincoln. When he was in the middle of that war and 600,000 people died, he was vilified for the Gettysburg Address because they felt it was too short and almost insulting, and now you look back and it's considered one of the great speeches of all time and he's considered one of the great presidents of all time."

  Josh Brolin

  War, People, Judging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the harsh reviews helped, in that I spent way more energy in the preproduction and development. From this point of view, I'm very thankful for the harsh critics. I still think the critics were unnecessarily insulting in a lot of things, but I think it helped.

  Uwe Boll

  Thinking, Energy, Harsh

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What the creeping crud is that?" [Percy] demanded. "You’re inside a giant glowing chicken-man!" "Hawk!" I yelled. I decided that if I survived this day I would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They’d probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Glowing, Guy

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• There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Directors, Lucky

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive

  Mary Rowlandson

  Christian, Lying, Taken

  Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.10, Diderot Publishing

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• Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

  A. J. Liebling

  Wine, Bottles, Lasts

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.6, North Point Press

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• Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

  Christopher Plummer

  Evil, Smoking, Storm

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• I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.

  Gilles Marini

  Wine, Glasses, Would Be

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• You don`t build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hard Work, Acting, Building

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.

  William H. Macy

  Cutting, Pals, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Daughter, Gratitude, Men

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• Don't count your wrongs, count your blessings and you shall not fail. Any human who calls himself a creature of God and does not count, many times during the day, the blessings but only counts what he doesn't have is insulting to God and to himself; he is a living non-reality.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Blessing, Reality

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• You're not insulting my character. Being a woman, especially in this business, it's so thrilling to get to do that. It's so rare, especially right now the way the film industry is. If you're a girl, the part you get to play these days...because there's so many less movies made...in a good movie, if there's a girl in it, there might be a handful of scenes, and your job is to be supportive to the guy who's messed up. Be the loving rock at home, or be the good mom, or be the attractive person.

  Keri Russell

  Girl, Mom, Jobs

  Source: deadline.com

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• I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

  Mike Piazza

  Gay, People, Way

  Mike Piazza (2014). “Long Shot”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Ideas, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.274, Wildside Press LLC

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