#insult

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There's love and everybody talks about it, but not all of us come close to it - or, if we do, it's not in the expected way.


Rupert Thomson


#rupert-thomson #the-insult #love

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.


Carolyn Gold Heilbrun


#insulting #point #quotations #use #words

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.


Junius


#endured #insult #more #oppression #than

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.


Charlie Kaufman


#condescending #each #end #first #first thing

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.


Auberon Waugh


#am #back #exist #i #i am

I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.


Cassandra Clare


#insult #jace-wayland #humor

I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you always?" "What are you, a psychiatrist?" Pritam took a breath. He could feel Laine's eyes on him, appraising his line of questioning. "Is it possible that the trauma of losing your best friend as a child and the trauma of losing your wife as an adult and the trauma of seeing Laine's husband take his life in front of you just recently..." Pritam shrugged and raised his palms, "You see where I'm going?" Nicholas looked at Laine. She watched back. Her gray eyes missed nothing. "Sure," agreed Nicholas, standing. "And my sister's nuts, too, and we both like imagining that little white dogs are big nasty spiders because our daddy died and we never got enough cuddles." "Your father died?" asked Laine. "When?" "Who cares?" Pritam sighed. "You must see this from our point of - " "I'd love to!" snapped Nicholas. "I'd love to see it from your point of view, because mine is not that much fun! It's insane! It's insane that I see dead people, Pritam! It's insane that this," he flicked out the sardonyx necklace,"stopped me from kidnapping a little girl!" "That's what you believe," Pritam said carefully. "That's what I fucking believe!" Nicholas stabbed his finger through the air at the dead bird talisman lying slack on the coffee table.


Stephen M. Irwin


#anger #childhood-trauma #death #defensive #grief

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.


Lord Chesterfield


#injury #insult #much #sooner #than

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.


James Randolph Adams


#almost #dollars #insult #intelligence #little

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.


Walter Lippmann


#beset #citizen #compliment #evidence #good