#dismiss

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#child #dismiss #first #first time #name

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#inspirational #soul #spirituality #wisdom #inspirational

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#categorize #class #dismiss #each #gender

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#dismiss #either #fantasy #found #futile

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#dismiss #fallacious #freedom #give #must

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#case #clerical #dismissed #guilt #itself

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#american #american people #barack #barack obama #case

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#been #clearly #cultural #define #dismissed

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#life #writing #attitude