#despicable

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#his #more #nothing #professional #remedies

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#connection #despicable #find #him #i

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility. ↗

— Judith Martin

#anonymous #despicable #does #etiquette #hiring

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#cease #clinton #despicable #did #him

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#crime #despicable #did #does #excuse

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bay #cause #country #despicable #disgrace

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core. ↗

— Len Wein

#core #despicable #even #find #her

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#conventions #despicable #human #human nature #nature

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#allows #any #arabia #china #council

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#as far as #certain #church #concerned #despicable