(106 quotes found)
“Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.”
Walt Whitman
“Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.”
Dorothy Day
“This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.”
Charles Krauthammer
“My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.”
Walter Savage Landor
“A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.”
William James
“I was disappointed over my dismissal, given that it was at a crucial stage of the game and I had worked very hard to get to that point,”
Ricky Ponting
“People tried to dismiss my candidacy when I ran for the United States Senate against an incumbent in 1992, and I had little money... And so I believe that so long as we have enough to keep going, to keep our operation going, to get to the point that people -- the people can speak, not just the money. The money primary is one thing, but the people's votes in the end will determine who wins,”
Carol Moseley Braun
“That is why [Duncan] was dismissed from this firm. The activities he engaged in at a minimum display extraordinary bad judgment.”
Charlie Leonard
“His dismissal in the second innings was exactly how we want to get him out,”
“We filed (the motion to dismiss) because we feel the allegations against the athletic director and against Penn State are unfounded.”
Bill Mahon