#despise

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#arts #convention #conventional #despise #enemy

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#found #laboratory #lots #never #practice

I despise shopping and department stores. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#department stores #despise #i #shopping #stores

He will have true glory who despises it. ↗

— Titus Livius

#glory #true #who #will

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#because #consider #desire #despise #go

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. ↗

— David Mallet

#courted #deeds #deserve #despises #fame

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#despise #dropped #gave #i #into

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. ↗

— George Mason

#labor #performed #poor #slaves

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. ↗

— Allan Massie

#civilised #despise #do you know #folk #know

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. ↗

— Brian May

#becoming #chance #despise #getting #head