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People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. — Brian Eno

Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant. — John Heider

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. — Joni Mitchell

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor. — Anthony Hopkins

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy. — Azar Nafisi

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass. — Dylan Moran

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. — Walter Savage Landor

But to-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases. — Charlotte Bronte

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. — Dorothy Allison

You will learn how much someone loved you, by how quickly they dismiss you. — Shannon L. Alder

By dismissing what could work, we dismiss our own growth. We dismiss what's possible. — Joe Vitale

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. — William Cowper

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them. — Sebastian Horsley

Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love. — Cassandra Clare

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand! — David Mitchell

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real. — Mark Rylance

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily. — Agatha Christie

Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul. — Walt Wyman

Despite the cold chill, she burned inside with a hunger she didn't want to dismiss. Not tonight. — Katherine McIntyre

How swiftly you dismiss our love... — Cassandra Clare

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise. — Noam Chomsky

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. - Walt Whitman — Laurie A. Helgoe

Preparation is the key to your success. You cannot dismiss the process and expect to be truly successful. — Linda Gibson

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies. — Ray Kurzweil

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all. — Ovid

Honor is not a thing to dismiss or forgotten but a thing to uphold at all time". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. — Horace

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure. — Deepak Chopra

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own. — Elizabeth Aston

Dismiss any doubt. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war. — Arundhati Roy

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades. — Alexander Pope

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports
in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place. — Paul Kurtz

Lay out your options, dismiss the ones that are of zero appeal, and focus on those that not only excite you, but make sense to you. — Lauren Lola

It is a difficult choice sometimes whether to feel revolted at the male sex or merely to dismiss them as contemptible. — Isaac Asimov

What others might dismiss as the vagaries of fate, my father interpreted as dancing lessons from the Divine. — Timothy B. Tyson

Dismiss perfection as an ache of the greedy, but do not give in to the mass modesty of easy imperfection. — Charles Bukowski

Dismiss any thought that leads to discouragement. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin. — Michel Faber

Americans assert their own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient facts as mere opinions. — Kevin Hearne

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write. — Hilary Liftin

I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause. — William Shakespeare

Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake. — Terry Pratchett

There is none so quick to dismiss what they don't understand as those who are afraid of it. And maybe with reason. — Paula Brackston

In his examination of the young dial painters, he'd discovered a fact that was impossible to dismiss. The women were exhaling radon gas. — Deborah Blum

I dismiss the pachyderms and the asses in favor of my axons and dendrites. — Laren Grey Umphlett

Whatever your dreams may be, never dismiss them as impossible. Always hope. Always try. You just never know when things will happen. — Joanne Van Leerdam

You cannot compel love," he said finally, "nor summon it at will. Still less," he added ruefully, "can you dismiss it. — Diana Gabaldon

The things we're most frightened of, we can't make ourselves dismiss them. — Cassandra Clare

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium. — Matt Drudge

What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle. — Rachel Sklar

I still meet old-school scientists who are like, 'Oh honey, women aren't good at science.' You kind of dismiss them as insane. — Anne Wojcicki

I think lots of things, Denny, and I dismiss nothing. When I know, then I'll act. — Jack Caldwell

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage. — Augustus

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it. — Jose Padilha

Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem — Nick Bantock

We refuse to dismiss the experts, we listen to them ... they all agree that Britain is better off in, you are better off in. — Ruth Davidson

I've loved Eleanor as long as you've been alive but it's wrong of me to dismiss your feelings for her simply because they're younger than mine. — Tiffany Reisz

To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle. — Nora Roberts

Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery. — John Pipkin

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome. — William James

we dismiss vulnerability as weakness only when we realize that we've confused feeling with failing and emotions with liabilities. — Brene Brown

Rail attendants dismiss excited train hobbyists as "foamers" (foaming at the mouth as they board their choo-choos). — Mark Leibovich

Is Roxy the villain of that story, I wonder, or is Hayden? I try to dismiss the thought. Real life is rarely so cut-and-dried. — Kendall Ryan

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. — Rabindranath Tagore

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that. — James Kelman

Argue not concerning God, ... re-examine all you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul ... . I — Rumi

Before you dismiss any gift as worthless, look again because it may just contain hidden treasure. — Rejoice Denhere

If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive. — Emmet Fox

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous. — Joshua L. Goldberg

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight. — Patricia Briggs

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans. — Robert E.Lee

When thoughts tell you it's too late, dismiss them. You haven't dreamed your best dream. You haven't run your best race. — Joel Osteen

Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them. — Mason Cooley

I give everyone a chance to prove themselves before I dismiss them. — Terry McMillian

You shouldn't have been born. Your existence is as close to impossible as can be. To dismiss the impossible is to dismiss yourself. — Matt Haig

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received. — John Sheffield

Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him. — Susan Cooper

No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. — Michio Kaku

Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts. — Rumi

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

We shall dismiss these with the observation that their work does not concern "investors" as the term is used in this book. — Benjamin Graham

Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer. — Immanuel Kant

Dancing dismiss distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job! — Hilton Als

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it. — Stephen Sondheim

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker. — Theodore Parker

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well. — Steve Jobs

Shutting out your problems does not dismiss them. Ignorance is not bliss. On the contrary, it creates an opportunity for those problems to grow. — Carlos Wallace

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. — Kevin Costner

My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me. — Audre Lorde

It's transparent, how willing we are to dismiss the intelligence of someone who rejects us, as though that renders them incapable of sound judgement. — Mary-Louise Parker

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. — Stokely Carmichael

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually. — Gore Vidal

I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have. — Michael Eric Dyson

Just kissing? How quicky you dismiss our love. -Jace — Cassandra Clare

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it. — Mason Cooley

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. — Natasha Trethewey