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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
Francis of Assisi

Him, Give, Against

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.
Jenifer Lewis

Heart, True, Play

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Christopher Hitchens

Evidence, Asserted

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Time, Art

Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016.
Ron Fournier

She, Since, Second

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
Christopher Lasch

Cannot, Revival

It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.
Julie Burchill

After, Sun, Making

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
Anne Rice

Thought, Wonderful, Beginning

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
Roy H. Williams

Truth, Knowledge, Giving

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.
Mariska Hargitay

Made, Loser, Golf

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.
Terry Eagleton

Power, Truth, Busy

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
Dorothy Day

Call, Saint, Easily

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
Iain Banks

Change, Science, Technology

Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
Laura Hillenbrand

Lazy, Sick, Joke

I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.
Shalom Harlow

Life, Women, Fear

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.
William Safire

Live, Mind, Accused

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.
Kurt Loder

Often, Television, Audience

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
David Dinkins

Against, Lawsuits, Courts

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
Roger Mahony

Law, State, Guilt

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
Tim Pawlenty

Leadership, American, Show

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
Maurice Saatchi

Respect, Audience, Instantly

As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
Sydney Schanberg

Understand, Fact, Checkers

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.
Dwight Yoakam

Trying, Quality, Musical

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.
Michael Koryta

Time, Thinking, Through

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.
Glenn Hubbard

Plan, Debt, President

In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
Archie Shepp

Music, Time, Important

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.
William L. Jenkins

Political, Often, President

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.
Roy Bean

Nothing, Law, Find

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.
Denis Thatcher

Best, Today, Night

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.
Whitley Strieber

Sure, Less, Literature

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