Dismissals Quotes & Sayings

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. — Natasha Trethewey

Speaking of God, He's real and He's there, too. And don't ask what He looks like because you wouldn't understand even if I told you. — Jodi Picoult

He is harshing my buzz, and I am" - Regin turned to yell over her shoulder - "not interested! — Kresley Cole

Birds will be bored
If I'd forgotten something
Ring the bells of those school dismissals in the sea
What we shall call pensive borage
We start by giving the solution to the contest
To wit how many tears can be held in a woman's hand
1. as little as possible
2. in a medium-sized hand
While I crumple this star-lit paper
And while the everlasting flesh has once and for all taken
possession of the mountain summits
I live like a recluse in a little house in the Vaucluse
Heart king's order — Andre Breton

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game. — Frank Woolley

They still had hope, for hope in the heart of men lives on lean pasture. — Joseph Bedier

The sixties began what many admirers of Eliot would consider a bleak period. The anxiety of influence of the profession at large seemed to inspire quick and increasingly uninformed dismissals of Eliot, and these repeated denigrations produced, predictably, a generation of students with vague and inaccurate impressions about his poetry and ideas. But there is a bright side to Eliot studies of the last quarter century. The general retreat from Eliot coincided with the beginning of basic and important work on his ideas, especially on his early philosophical writings. — Jewel Spears Brooker

Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer. — Steve Dustcircle

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation. — Lee H. Hamilton

He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not interested in marrying where I do not love."
I spoke in a jesting voice. "And of all the women in the eight provinces, you have not been able to find one you could love?"
Now he looked at me again, and his face was completely serious. "That's the problem," he said. "There is one. — Sharon Shinn

Recognizing sexism is harder than it once was. Like the micro-aggressions that people of color endure daily - racism masked as subtle insults or dismissals - today's sexism is insidious, casual, politically correct, even friendly. It — Jessica Bennett

Her presence had not so much weight as to task thought, and yet enough to exercise it. — Thomas Hardy