The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin’s critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.
– Luke Harding
Related Quotes:
- VLADIMIR: Moron!ESTRAGON: Vermin!VLADIMIR: Abortion!ESTRAGON: Morpion!VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!ESTRAGON: Curate!VLADIMIR: C – Samuel Beckett
- Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous. – Claude LviStrauss
- Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves. – Oli Anderson
- Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. – Augustine of Hippo
- You disregard God when you disregard His people – Sunday Adelaja
- It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable. – Clarice Lispector
- To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. – Jane Austen
- CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe… – DeOLs
- A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- all may not be well but, sometimes, things that seem so uncanny are what shield and protect us from the worst situations in life. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Lucky Luke: I wonder how you manage to read with everything that’s going on.Jolly Jumper: By turning the pages just like everyone else. – Morris
- I dreamt of you last night – as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. – Vladimir Nabokov
- Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand. – Geraldine Brooks
- I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories. – Pushpa Rana
- I cannot explain what’s between us, Lady Newbury, other than to say that I have an uncanny urge to kiss you whenever we meet. – Sophie Barnes
- With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worse habits. – Oscar Wilde
- Human life is fiction’s only theme. – Eudora Welty
- The feeling of ‘turning into your dad’ is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you. – Andy Graham
- Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God’s maddening, disruptive, creativity. – M Craig Barnes
- Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human beings. – Paul Harding
- I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny – John Cleaver – Dan Wells
- Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a character;Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. – Samuel Smiles
- Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God. – Elizabeth George
- The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. – John Climacus
- For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity. – Augustine of Hippo
- To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who created All – Martin Suarez
- There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it. – Steven Magee
- Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead – Rick Yancey
- Don’t cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- She came out of nowhere like a two-by-four against the skull, knocking all common sense out of him and turning him into a walking woody. – Marissa Clarke
- Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it’s power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much? – Hannah Harding
- What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit. – Jewel
- Reading is one of the most common habit among the most successful people. – Aakash Singal
- As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic. – Evelyn Waugh
- Drop the fear. What you fear most, can be a repeated theme in your life. – Amit Ray
- Beauty and death, so closely knit together. This seems to be the central theme of my life. – Jessica Khoury