Sneeringly Quotes & Sayings

Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also ... — William McKinley

It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. — Tina Brown

Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things? — Ken Robinson

Earlier we used to play with snakes, but now we play with mouse. Through IT, India's youth has surprised the entire World! — Narendra Modi

More than the aspirations of an innocuous bird inside a cage, its the story of the cage that fascinates. — Ashutosh Gupta

To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories. — Shogo Oketani

[On technology:] A realm of intimate, personal power is developing
power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. — Stewart Brand

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me. — Khalil Gibran

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma. — Jean Danielou

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves. — Theodore Roosevelt

This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To them, the only purpose of the Universe was the production of intelligence, and they were apt to talk sneeringly about purely astronomical phenomena, 'Mere dead matter' was one of their favourite phrases. — Arthur C. Clarke

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius. — Tabatha Coffey