Scoffing Quotes

• Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior!

  Philip Bliss

  Friday, Blood, Rude

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• Tal es tu coqueta frialdad, que no puede decir "No", y no quiere decir "Sí", y te mantiene de un lado a otro en un sotavento, hasta que empieza a soplar, Entonces ve tu corazón destrozado, con una burla interior.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Blow, Coquette

  Lord Byron (2013). "Don Juan", p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

  Walter Isaacson

  Research, Bells, Telephones

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fear, Character, Speak

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.53

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• There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Risa, Corazón, Hombres

  The Man with the Muck-rake, pronunciado el 14 de abril de 1906

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• Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

  Philip Sidney

  Sir Philip Sidney, William Gray (1829). "Las Obras Misceláneas de Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: Con una Vida del Autor y Notas Ilustrativas"

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• On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Telephones, Done

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.

  Rob Brezsny

  Change, Sweet, Spots

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.9, Frog Books

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• Resulta que el conservacionismo puede ser divertido, con la noticia de que el cangrejo real rojo noruego -que pesa un impresionante kilo entero de jugoso cangrejo por caparazón- debe comerse tanto como sea posible, porque se está comiendo a todos los demás peces de Noruega. De hecho, sería una negligencia por nuestra parte no comer todos los bichos que podamos cada semana, ya que suponen una auténtica amenaza ecológica para la vida marina. Así que, vamos vegetarianos. Veamos cuánto os importa realmente el medio ambiente.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Funny, Kings, Marine

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• En Estados Unidos existe una larga tradición de burlarse de los poetas, especialmente si muestran algún interés por la política.

  Eugene McCarthy

  América, Larga, Tradición

  Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). "Disparos de despedida desde mi frágil arco: Reflections on American Politics and Life", p.165, Fulcrum Publishing

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• El arte más elevado es siempre el más religioso; y el artista más grande es siempre un hombre devoto. No es concebible un Rafael o un Miguel Ángel burlón.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Religious, Art, Men

  John Stuart Blackie (1858). “On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh”, p.104

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• None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

  John Tillotson

  Profanity, Trifling, Swear

  John Tillotson (1720). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith”, p.37

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• Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

  Plutarch

  Lamps, Argument, Said

  "Life of Demosthenes". Book by Plutarch. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Two, Hatred

  James Russell Lowell (1849). “Poems”, p.206

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• I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day.

  Peter Andre

  Half, Shapes, Want

  "Peter Andre interview: Jordan's ex on sex, lies and six packs". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 11, 2009.

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• Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change.... Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.

  Rob Brezsny

  Sweet, Pain, Balance

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.9, Frog Books

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• Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

  Margaret Atwood

  Evil, Sometimes, Complicated

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 06, 2011

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• These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.

  William Shatner

  Country, People, Population

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