Contumelies Quotes & Sayings

It had no affect on me whatsoever. Um ... I consider Jay a very good friend of mine. I also consider Dame and Biggs very good friends of mine. With me not being a Roc-A-Fella artist, with me just being a friend of both and not being tied to them in the Roc-A-Fella situation, I was still able to maintain personal relationships with both of em. — Bun B.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers. — William Petty

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands. — Bell Hooks

Why bother? It's impossible to compete with the dead. — Gillian Flynn

If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't. — Eddie Harris

Our greatest need is God's grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it. — Frederick Lenz

The contumelies of tyranny are the worst parts of it. — Edmund Burke

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement. — Amy Winehouse

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within. — Salman Khurshid

It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear. — Elizabeth Gaskell

If I could be involved in the hunting and fishing industry, that would be amazing. That said, I studied biology in college and that led into me being really involved in anatomy and being a pre-med major. — Dustin Lynch

And so I hunger for something that is permanent, something that will last forever. Truth, I am told, is a thing that will last forever. — Anthony Burgess