Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

William Wordsworth

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

Robert Purvis

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

Rudyard Kipling

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Junius

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Nick Rhodes

Intelligence can't be insulted.

Preston Brooks

Whatever insults my state insults me,

Portia de Rossi

She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

Thomas Muster

My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.

John Connor

This was our second huge character-building performance in a row. Comebacks don't get much better than this.

Ken Hitchcock

He scored so many big goals for me in Dallas. It was frightening how many big goals he scored. The '98 and '99 seasons, he had comeback goals, clinching goals, important goals. That was it. Not the goals he scored, but the importance of the goals he scored.

Ken Hitchcock

He scored so many big goals for me in Dallas, ... It was frightening how many big goals he scored. The '98 and '99 seasons, he had comeback goals, clinching goals, important goals. That was it. Not the goals he scored, but the importance of the goals he scored.

Gavin Henson

Whatever. Don't you know it's my comeback week?

Scott Skiles

We're not worried about where we are. We were 10 games under .500 in March and that would be quite a comeback if we win on Wednesday (and finish 41-41).

Marty DeJarnette

We've got to wipe this out. Hopefully we'll play well for four quarters and not two. We'll try to comeback Monday ready to go.

Sergio Garcia

To comeback from that double-bogey and shoot six-under from there, that was a pretty good effort. I've been working a lot on my putting and its time to make things happen. It great to see putts going in. It is a new feeling for me and its a wonderful one. Hopefully we can keep it going like this.

The Vikings

I think a comeback would be possible, but not advisable,'' Smith said.

Richard Dawkins

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Saul Bellow

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Robin Morgan

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

Simone Beauvoir

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Jonathan Sacks

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Ken Wilber

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

Terrence McNally

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Andrew Bernstein

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.