#insulted

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When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.


George Saunders


#could #explaining #feel #i #insulted

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.


Sam Sheppard


#after #family #hour #insulted #me

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.


Pierre Corneille


#deserves #himself #insulted #who

Well, I think when you come here and wave a Mexican flag in our face in a country that's giving a lot of these people an opportunity that they've never had before, I think a lot of Americans are insulted, whether they're first-, second-, third-, fourth- or fifth-generation Americans.


Henry Bonilla


#come #country #face #flag #giving

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

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.


Johannes Brahms


#beg #here #his #i #insulted

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.


Edouard Manet


#been #broken #constantly #feels #i

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.


George Ripley


#attachment #cause #devotion #discussion #down

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.


Gordon Sinclair


#danger #i #insulted #paris #propped

I’ll trade you one dollar for five dollars. What, is my money no good here?



Jarod Kintz


#insult #insulted #insulting #money #money