Despiseth Quotes & Sayings

It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They're all there for you. We're willing those to you. Are you ready? — John Morgridge

I went cage diving in South Africa with Great Whites, and that was fun. Sweden was cool. — Peter Uihlein

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl ... I'm Southern and old-fashioned. — Jaime Pressly

Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died ... He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life ... Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense. — Jhumpa Lahiri

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person. — Brian Tracy

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. — Anonymous

Live your spirit's dreams, not your mind's. — Alan Cohen

May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in the Bible, 'Him that honoreth Me I will honor, but he that despiseth Me shall be lightly esteemed.' — Samuel Adams

People with a realistic view see rejections as a natural part of life and adjust accordingly. It — Lysa TerKeurst

Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would "confess" Christ. The "offense" of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world. — Lord Kelvin

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened,
If still they live, rove through the world now saddened. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In philosophy we must always resist the temptation of hitting on an answer to the question how we can define such-and-such a notion, an answer which supplies a smooth and elegant definition which entirely ignores the purpose which we originially wanted the notion for. — Michael Dummett

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way. — N. T. Wright

I didn't have to go. I could fade into the crowd, be pushed along through the tunnel, into the city. I could roll along in my bubble ball.
I was used to moving, used to packing up and following along like a robot, but I was tired of it. I wanted to stop moving and I wanted to be somewhere and stay somewhere and I wanted my family. — Sharon Creech

Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles, life. - Young. The smallest hair throws its shadow. - Goethe. He that despiseth small things shall fall little by little. - Ecclesiastes. It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. - Tennyson. "A pebble in the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river: A dewdrop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak forever. — Orison Swett Marden

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening. — John Kricfalusi

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans. — Phyllis Schlafly

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do. — Jim Harrison

I see myself as a revolutionary, as a fashion rebel. — Amar'e Stoudemire