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Deemed a fool is better than smartass. -- Toba Beta
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. -- Timothy West
Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many. -- Paracelsus
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. -- Walter Scott
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. -- Plato
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. -- Lao Tzu
I always saw myself wanting to do something deemed successful and good at the same time. -- Howard Schultz
In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer. -- Tony Campolo
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. -- Evgeny Morozov
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. -- Michel de Montaigne
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. -- Angelina Grimke
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest. -- Matthew Shultz
If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man. -- Bradley Cooper
I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate. -- Andy Dick
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger. -- John Foxe
I do find that as a curvy girl, as I guess I've sort of been deemed, I don't think you want to run your curves off, because then you're just not yourself. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days. -- Anson Jones
The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment. -- Gary Bauer
I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain. -- Jhonen Vasquez
In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and not replaced. Maybe they're deemed unnecessary because nobody cares if anything's good or not. -- Tom Shales
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. -- Joseph Story
While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations. -- Gail Devers
I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen. -- Ben Affleck
The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which we no one is deemed better than another. And in which all of us are equal. Not equal in abilities, but equal in intrinsic worth and value. -- Mike Huckabee
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is. -- Jimmy Reid
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. -- Henry David Thoreau
That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. -- Leonardo da Vinci
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. -- Robert Browning
Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad. -- James Beattie
Men might be better if we better deemed of them. -- Philip James Bailey
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is. -- Martial
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. -- Kelly Miller
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is -- Marcus Aurelius
Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless. -- Allen Klein
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world. -- St. Jerome
If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it. -- Hannah Arendt
You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them. -- Ava DuVernay
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. -- Jalal Talabani
Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions. -- Michel de Montaigne
World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal. -- Subramanya Bharathi
Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible. -- Jonathan V. Last
The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad. -- Khalil Gibran
Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven. -- Euripides
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. -- Lao Tzu
...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world. -- Zicheng Hong
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true. -- William Shakespeare
My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important. -- Patti Smith
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. -- Tim Jackson
People photograph everything and nothing - no interaction is deemed to have actually happened unless somebody has a picture of it, -- Hugh Jackman
God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you. -- Emily Dickinson
The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. -- Thomas Love Peacock
DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace. -- Ambrose Bierce
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one -- Thomas Jefferson
Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed â??bossyâ?? by their peers, -- Anna Maria Chavez
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. -- Thomas Jefferson
Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote. -- Ann Coulter
I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre. -- Moby
If somebody is deemed more talented within the confines of the school it doesn't mean they're going to have the most successful career. -- Gillian Jacobs
The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food. -- Clifton Fadiman
In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent. -- Criss Jami
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. -- Ambrose Bierce
In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah. -- Jack Schwartz
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. -- William Cowper
If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them "too much effort. -- Gena Showalter
We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary. -- Marianne O. Battani
Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle. -- Lee Clow
Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor. -- Jack Gleeson
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war. -- Thomas Jefferson
I worked in the White House on 9/11, where the vice president was given the authority to, if he deemed necessary, shoot down an American passenger jet. -- Nicolle Wallace
The last thing I would want for my future daughter would be to starve herself because she thought a thigh gap was necessary to be deemed attractive, -- Robyn Lawley
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions. -- James Bryce
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. -- Herman Melville
This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants, -- Hadley Freeman
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin. -- Andreas Vesalius
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book. -- Rudy Rucker
If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem. -- William Godwin
I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of religious doubt - or religious belief. -- Edward Kennedy
History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them. -- Orison Swett Marden
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. -- James Madison
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say. -- Confucius
My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better. -- Nicole Kidman
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil. -- John Calvin
The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition to their policies: Thou shall be deemed a racist. -- Monica Crowley
The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still. -- August von Platen-Hallermunde
There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards. -- Bram Stoker
In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success. -- Walter E. Williams
Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine? -- Felix Frankfurter
What is deemed "unlikeable" in Washington is actually standing up to Washington and saying no, saying "The emperor has no clothes," saying "We made promises to the people who elected us; let's do that." -- Ted Cruz
Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether. -- Victor Davis Hanson
The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want. -- Hayley DiMarco

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