Upbraiding Quotes & Sayings

Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious — Yann Martel

[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master. — Katharina Zell

There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth. — Rodrigo Rato

The great men of antiquity were poor. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

We can't win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice. — Dale Carnegie

Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think. — Nancy Kress

Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosopher to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient "interest" in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so helplessly lost to all honourable ambition, as that in their secret souls they would rather not see whales than otherwise. But all in vain; those young Platonists have a notion that their vision is imperfect; they are short-sighted; what us, then, to strain the visual nerve? They have left their opera glasses at home. — Herman Melville

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down. — Neil Young

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones. — Richard Dawkins

We Finches don't marry the children of rednecked white trash. — Harper Lee

Thus it is brought prominently before us, that superstition's chief victims are those persons who greedily covet temporal advantages; they it is, who (especially when they are in danger, and cannot help themselves) are wont with prayers and womanish tears to implore help from God: upbraiding Reason as blind, because she cannot show a sure path to the shadows they pursue, and rejecting human wisdom as vain; but believing the phantoms of imagination, dreams, and other childish absurdities, to be the very oracles of Heaven. As though God had turned away from the wise, and written His decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind! Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear. — Christopher Hitchens

You two are like Dumb and Dumber on ice skates. — Beth Ehemann

I think that one who has received a kindness ought to remember it all his life; but that the doer of the kindness should forget it once for all; if the former is to behave like a good man, the latter like one free from all meanness. To be always recalling and speaking of one's own benefactions is almost like upbraiding the recipients of them. — Demosthenes

You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning. — Robert Anton Wilson

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely. — Cassandra Clare

I think music is seasonal. In the summer my taste changes. — Katie Kacvinsky

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing. — Gordon B. Hinckley

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others. — Laozi