Quotes about despise, page 15
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
quote by Lao-Tzu
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The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system.
quote by Quentin Crewe
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Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
quote by Ben Azai
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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.
quote by Brian May
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I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
quote by Werner Herzog
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The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
quote by Xun Zi
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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
quote by Alton Brown
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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope -- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
John Fowles in The Magus
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Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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