Ridiculed Quotations

Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.

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.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

If I book a table at a pub, or I've got an appointment at an optician's or something, I'll walk in and I'll say, 'This is Tom Jones here,' And they'll go 'Awww, I thought it was gonna be him.' They think it's gonna be the real guy. I've been ridiculed a lot throughout my life for it.

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Over the years I've made decisions about things, especially music, and have been scoffed at and ridiculed and opposed, but I knew I had to do these things.

That dang Fair Play award I won twice got me ridiculed a bit. So now I don't want to win it anymore. I just don't like to lose. It's been like that my whole life. It's embarrassing to lose.

Confusion: You cannot speak of your achievements for you are conceited, yet you cannot speak of wrongs because you complain. We encourage you to learn, yet if you teach what you learnt you are not qualified. You may be ridiculed for never taking chances in life, but if you do you must be careful. You are allowed to smoke whilst complaining about pollution. We must protect refugees fleeing war, yet we are scorned for protecting them in their homeland.

Sometimes I feel ashamed and stupid for all the times I laughed at teenage love and now look at me. I'm a glowing example. I am the demonstration. I am the diagram and charts. I'm all the sappy words and sugary feelings and there's no diffrence. None. And evreyone I ridiculed is throwing tomatoes at me! Sometimes the boys and girls walking down the hall together holding hands or making out against a locker make me want to scream. But I can't because I am just as bad as them.

They were hurt. To be ridiculed in the newspapers. My father was such an intellectual and moral person, to be reduced to a sexy playboy, it was humiliating.

This group of seniors has been ridiculed quite a bit. It's not been fun for them. But, hopefully, they can go out and find some fun.

It's a strange feeling to go from being fringe, ridiculed and called un-American or being ignored to representing the majority view and having these counterprotesters look pretty desperate,

It's awful. There's no reason for it. A lot of women have no idea how hard it is for a guy to approach a woman to ask her out. Maybe he's got no clue that you're not interested, but to give him a phone number so he gets ridiculed and rejected? It's mean. It's a waste of time. It's bad.

They created a Wizard of Oz PR machine that never went behind the curtain and looked at all the claims. Anybody who raised any questions about it was ridiculed and dismissed.

The issue had been ridiculed in the local papers and I thought, wait a minute - this is a serious issue.

I'm a firm believer in second chances, and if we're going to go through life not giving anyone second chances, what kind of life are we going to have? People make mistakes in life. Unfortunately, I was under the microscope and on TV when my mistake happened, and if I'm going to sit here and keep getting ridiculed about it, how are we ever going to give someone a second chance to become better or to change situations?

In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.

I have nothing to hide. I've had my ups and downs, and went through something 20 years ago. I've been ridiculed and persecuted, but I'm not bitter. I've gone through an enormous change, and now my life is driven by Christ.

I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.