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We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us ... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them? — J.G. Farrell

If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap. — Philip Yancey

...a gallon of condescension, upon everybody... — Charles Dickens

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe. — Samuel Johnson

What are others worth that they have the nerve to sneer at any human being? — Graham Greene

You can coat that shit in sugar, but it's still shit. — Kyran Pittman

You don't need everybody, just the right somebody! — Suzette R. Hinton

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. — Sherman Alexie

There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God. — Joseph Campbell

If I needed your condescension, I'd ask for it. — Mark Slouka

All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension. — Peter Akinola

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect. — Stella Young

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. — Phillips Brooks

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension. — John Steinbeck

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. — Verity Stob

It is unutterably boring, the multitudes in progression from innocence to inkling to knowledge to the inevitable apotheosis of desperation. — Catherynne M Valente

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. — Margaret Mead

The great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do. — Margaret Caroline Anderson

Service, which is nothing other than a modern echo of noblesse oblige, and generally undertaken in the same spirit of benign condescension. — William Deresiewicz

Professors stare down from their podiums; that's their insecurity. — Marty Rubin

Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago. — Dallin H. Oaks

Take your condescension, your unwanted advice, your creepy lurking outside of my door and shove it up your ass. — Erin Watt

His posture spoke of condescension, his expression disinterest. He was all brambles and icicles as he strode closer to her cage. — Marissa Meyer

No judgment, no condescension. Just hope. — James Frey

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension. — Bernard Crick

He smiled a slow, predatory grin. "Resistance is futile." "You are not assimilating me. — Ilona Andrews

And stories are all about conflict. — Donald Miller

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value. — Jean Gebser

I made up my mind that I wanted everything, and nothing would stop me. — Suge Knight

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid. — Craig Ferguson

Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son. — Steve Erickson

One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own. — Saint John Chrysostom

Fame compensates for a column of wants. — Gertrude Atherton

And in any case one should not confuse clarity with condescension. — Steven Pinker

Love is such a tremendous force of feeling! When you can't stop loving, you simply cannot stop it. — Munia Khan

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord. — Peter Shaffer

...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork. — Rebecca Solnit

Life. A tiny moment between two eternities — Karin Alvtegen

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity. — E.P. Thompson

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it. — Stewart Stafford