#despise

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#despise #either #go #gutter #hurl

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#began #best #black #black music #class

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#despise #managers #most #thing #trained

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. ↗

— George Washington

#cursing #despises #detests #every #foolish

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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A wise traveler never despises his own country. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#country #despises #his #never #own

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. ↗

— Nina Bawden

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

— Hedy Lamarr

#arts #convention #conventional #despise #enemy