Derogatively Quotes & Sayings

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life. — Austin O'Malley

What you call your personality, you know?
it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been. — Joyce Carol Oates

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind. — Carl Sagan

That's how badly people wanted it - to know that their lives had happened, that the person they once had been still existed inside of them. — Emma Cline

People die, terrible things happen. I know this now. You can't pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go. — Ann Patchett

I am running for re-election no matter who runs. — Charles B. Rangel

If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition. — Oprah Winfrey

You say I'm a dreamer, but I'm simply a believer in a world where anything is possible. — Solomon Woytowich

If we say that a person has style we may wish to imply that he is unnatural, affected, self-conscious or ostentatious. In the sixteenth century 'maniera' was generally a desirable attribute of a work of art, but this positive aspect was accompanied by the realization of the negative one that correspond to what we now call, derogatively, stylization. — John Shearman

We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas. — H.L. Mencken

you say that other species are too dumb to believe in gods but we're so advanced and technological that we believe in a super natural story of supreme beings that was thought up thousands of years ago by our primitive ancestors who thought that the sun and planets revolved around the earth, who believed that the gods looked down upon us through windows in the heavens, that is to say, stars, so, yes, we're so advanced that we believe in something that is so clearly fantastical that it's possible that these 'dumb animals' you speak of so derogatively, just might be more intelligent than us. — Arun D. Ellis

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power. — Jorge Ramos

Underneath so many of the phenomena we see every day are only three basic actions: one is described by the simple coupling number, j; the other two by functions-P(A to B) and E(A to B)- both of which are closely related. That's all there is to it, and from it all the rest of the laws of physics come. — Richard Feynman