We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.
We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.
But, of old, there was One whose suffering changed an instrument of torture, degradation and shame, into a symbol of glory, honor, and immortal life; and, where His spirit is, neither degrading stripes, nor blood, nor insults, can make the Christian's last struggle less than glorious.
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.
When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.
What should a wise person do when given a blow Same as Cato when he was attacked not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
does not look like a proposal at all. It is an insult to the Iranian nation. They have talked in a way as if the Iranian nation was suffering from backwardness, and the time was 100 years ago, and our country was their colony.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
You tried to charm them and fake them out, ... They saw you lie to them. I saw you lie. It was an insult to the court and to the system.
She liked big wigs and she shopped too much. That's as good a grave as anybody is going to get around here. It's an insult to humanity that they are not burying people. The authorities are a bunch of incompetent fools.
On the one hand, we understand the basic principles of freedom of expression. On the other hand, as Muslims, we do feel offended when the insult goes to the root of Islam, Muhammad himself.
We condemn any such actions, whichever side they may come from. We also condemn such provocative cartoons, which add to the division between religions, insult the feelings of believers and provoke them.
The West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of Islamic sanctities.
What happened is an ugly crime that cannot be forgiven, and an insult for the Palestinian people.
Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain, insult and injury. The succession of joy and grief must help confirm the faith and make it immovable. That alone can evidence true devotion.
Gandhi had always protested against the consumption of non-vegetarian food and liquor by enlightened people. So depicting Gandhi as a brand ambassador for eggs is an insult to him and the entire nation,
Let me be frank, fighting the current Turkish government is an insult to the Kurdish people. This is a terrorist act. This is against the process of democracy in Turkey. This is only in the interest of the enemies of the Kurdish people
That seemed like an insult, ... I guess it was. Even after that, I thought he maybe put it badly and he didn't mean to be sending out these go-away vibes. But it turns out he put it exactly right.
The conditions that led to the original designation of TPS for these Central Americans were not such that persons could not return home in the first place, and there clearly is no such justification now several years later. Further, it is an insult to the American public to use the TPS process to give legal work status to persons who entered the US illegally as is the case with most of the Central Americans benefiting from the administration's action. It is absurd to believe that these persons who entered the US illegally are going to voluntarily return to their home country once their work permits are no longer valid.
Sometimes, when I go back home, they don't see us as much of a threat. I always take that as an insult. I come back, and I make sure to tell my teammates about that.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Athlete is one word that does describe me. To me, being described as just an athlete is an insult.
When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.
The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.
It would be an insult to the African-American community if this isn't pursued. These weren't idle threats. The girl truly fears for her life.
To a lot of people that would be an insult. They have been publicly out looking at how many different names and everyone turned it down and they come back and ask you
I think it's kind of an insult. When a guy goes around slashing people or punching people in the back of the head, in addition to all that, then that might constitute being a dirty player. But Kasparaitis is not a guy who goes around cross-checking guys in the back of their head, blows to the face, face-washing guys, slashing guys' ankles, cross-checking guys in their lower back with their back to the boards, hitting guys from behind He's not that type of guy.
These people have been through enough. There's a lot of insult added to injury.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice. First by the perpetrators who raped them, and then by officials who ignore them, insult them and deny them a legal abortion.
If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
Those who seek to know God must steel themselves to bear insult, injury and torture, with a smile.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
In the '90s, it felt like it became (all about) people insulting each other. ... Insult. Comeback. Insult. Comeback. That doesn't feel real at all. But I feel like all three of these shows have veered away from that, and there's some sort of deeper goal.
It's an insult to be just a great cover guy. I really think Deion Sanders set defensive-back play back. All he would do is cover people and not strike anybody.
She came to meet me in person and she didn't find me. The kidnapping of this woman is an insult to me and to my work. To the men who are kidnapping her You know that the woman has a special status in our religion, our culture and our principles.
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
There is no doubt, it's an insult.
Pizza with pineapple, that's a cake...Pizza with cucumber, it's an insult.
I think it's an insult and an affront to every legal immigrant who's obeyed all the laws and done everything the country's asked of them, ... I don't think it's fair that millions of people should be able to cut in line in front of them. It directly undermines our immigration laws.
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
The sad reality is that groups have already interacted by insulting each other's religions. In most cases, certainly in the Danish case, it's a calculated insult. In the West, we are allowed to make calculated insults in the name of freedom of speech.
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
The other side has nothing but scare tactics, ... One side offers solutions and the other side offers scare tactics and insults, and I am confident the American people will take solutions every time.
It is an outrage and an insult to the women of this country that George W. Bush has nominated such as jurist to be chief justice of the United States.
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