Mockery famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.
-- Charles Ludlam

#Lows #Mockery
If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.
-- Charles Ludlam

#Lows #Mockery
The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion
-- Dean Cavanagh

#Compassion #Charity #Mockery
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Eye #Tongue #Mockery
And I am a mockery, who was God before.
-- Jan Struther

#Mockery
That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.
-- Ned Sublette

#Spirit #Characteristics #Mockery
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
-- Norman Douglas

#Life #Enjoy #Mockery
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.
-- Ravi Zacharias

#Needs #Emotion #Mockery
Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.
-- Terry Jones

#Meaningful #Terrorism #Mockery

It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.
There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.
Today one might be tempted to say that patriotism is the last refuge of the tribal religion dedicated to the worship of German, French, English and Russian Gods of Battles. Surely such a religion has nothing in common with the religion which counsels for the disciple non-resistance, unstinted forgiveness, and the elimination of all rancor?
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.
I decided to focus on the things I could control and let go of the things that were out of my hands. That lesson has provided me with great relief; it has brought great things into my life.
When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord.
The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.
Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.
It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.