Derisive In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as of something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive - and a few are enough to carry on. — H.L. Mencken

But pulling away only makes things worse. God says, "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13). All my heart includes the parts that are broken. Bring it all to God. — Lysa TerKeurst

Attachment is the strongest block to realization. — Neem Karoli Baba

I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way. — Janis Joplin

I am I, with all the individuality of an earthworm. After a rain, who knows the unique pink worm by the twist of its elastic segments. Only the guts of the worm know. And it is nothing to crush the yellow liquid intestines under a casual heel. — Sylvia Plath

The English government is one of those which arose out of a conquest, and not out of society, and consequently it arose over the people; and though it has been much modified from the opportunity of circumstances since the time of William the Conqueror, the country has never yet regenerated itself, and is therefore without a constitution. — Thomas Paine

Trust is a gossamer thread, and it takes only a breath of suspicion to break it. — Jason Worthley

It was disconcerting that being in love felt lonelier than lonelines. — Emily Maguire

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance. — Christopher Doyle

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. — Edgar Allan Poe

I'm a winner ... I'm a competitor. That's what I do. It doesn't make sense for me to go over and shake somebody's hand, — LeBron James