Condescendign Quotes & Sayings

Now I see that night does something to a person's identity, even when asleep. — Djuna Barnes

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love. — Margaret Atwood

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them. — Matthew Henry

Having a boy see you, acknowledge you in such a way that you felt sure no one had ever experienced that feeling before, all the while knowing you'd joined a long line of people who did the same dance to find the person they spend their lives with. — Kiera Cass

I could not get used to the idea of ther being classes of people inherently inferior to oneself, to whom one could be as odiously condescendign or downright brutal as one likes, yet with whom one lived as intimately as family. — Robyn Davidson

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel. — Rosemary Mahoney

At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery. — Ernest Bramah

To base one's rejection of what exists
and hence one's prescription for a better world
upon the petty frustrations of one's youth, as surely many middle-class radicals have done, is profoundly egotistical. Unless consciously rejected, this impulse leads to a tendency throughout life to judge the rightness or wrongness of policies by one's personal emotional response to them, as if emotion were an infallible guide. — Theodore Dalrymple

expectations, rules, and requests for compliance often drives the best-intentioned parents over the edge. — Dan Kindlon

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim. — Orison Swett Marden

my dad huffing and puffing about how he insisted on the top tier of care. — Eileen Cook

Conformity is the enemy of friendship — Richard Peck

A pity, ' he said, without a trace of mockery. 'It seems that those who possess the greatest beauty appreciate it the least. — Jeanne Kalogridis

He was almost certain Arella had smiled at him last night. Well, perhaps not at him, technically. But she had smiled in his presence, and that was an improvement. — Elisabeth Brown