#insulting

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#book #deeply #insulting #ones #painful

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#entitled #even #insulting #public #robust

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

#insult #insulted #insulting #money #money

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#bad #bad one #farther #go #hated

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#delightful #insulting #pretty #professional #reputation

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brickheads #conscious #consciousness #conservatism #conservative

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind. ↗

— James Meredith

#civil #civil rights #concept #could #insulting

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#been #before #budget #ceiling #civil

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed. ↗

— Helen Garner

#bashed #bear #been #call #i

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting-problems #degrading #demeaning #equal #equality