Despreciaste Quotes & Sayings

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized ... He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment. — Richard M. Weaver

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day. — Stan Getz

To brave the undertow, we had learned to hold hands. — Anne Brashares

I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey. — Fran Lebowitz

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't. — Dorianne Laux

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. — Swami Vivekananda

Marketing should never be just a blunt instrument. — Terry O'Reilly

With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes. — Maynard Webb

Glorify what is great not what is important. — Debasish Mridha

I was sorry that I'd told him, but I had no defenses anymore. I could not lie, even for the best of reasons; there was simply no place to go, nowhere to hide. I felt beset by whispering ghosts, their loss, their need, their desperate love pulling me apart. Apart from Jamie, apart from myself. — Diana Gabaldon

You think this is the first
time Lila's been impulsive? Seriously, dude, you do remember my sister,
right? Short, blonde, impulsive as shock therapy? Stubborn as a mule who
won't take no for an answer?'
Alex raises an eyebrow. Without reading his mind I can tell he's thinking
that that's like the ear wax laughing at the snot. — Sarah Alderson