Dismissed Quotations

When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.

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.

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

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.

I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.

If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.

Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.

I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

One by one they have slowly but surely been dismissed by the courts or withdrawn by the plaintiffs,

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.

I did not know. If I would have known, I would have dismissed him immediately.

Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.

She read me case and law saying a juror can be dismissed for not deliberating in good faith. When she read that to me, my jaw dropped.

So he did the right thing, the courageous thing and dismissed the case.

should be promptly dismissed for crimes against journalism.

She should be promptly dismissed for crimes against journalism and her own newspaper.

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.

If advertisers and attorneys saw fraud under 10 percent, it would be dismissed as an accounting error, but the lawsuit and our client data makes it clear, that the fraud rate is much higher than that.

I believe the federal government should stamp out discrimination wherever - wherever - it occurs, ... If I look only at what you've said and written. . . . I would have to vote no. You dismissed the constitutional protection of privacy as, quote, 'a so-called right.' . . . You dismissed gender discrimination as...'merely a perceived problem.'

Had the judge not dismissed the case, there is a chance that this individual would still be in the program and a chance that those girls would not have been victimized.

I was dismissed from the firm for reasons and beliefs which were not based on facts or evidences but for 'preferences' which resulted from innuendo, assumption, false stereotype and homophobia.

Part of the president's job is to make sure his staff obeys the laws and he should make sure that anyone indicted in this dastardly outing of a covert operative is immediately dismissed from the White House,

I think Elvis was dismissed because of his popularity,

I think maybe they'll accept mid-major teams who have done everything they can do, to the best of their ability. You'd like to think these teams will get an extra look, that they won't just be summarily dismissed in favor of high-profile programs.

I was very disappointed about being dismissed here considering what had developed behind the scenes, ... I appreciate the opportunity to come back and hopefully be able to develop success with a different formula than I had in the past.

I won't surmise from that that we've been 100 percent dismissed from the committee, because as soon as I would surmise that, I would misinterpret what someone had said to me. But that's accurate. We will not be involved in any of the meetings.

It could be dismissed by the judge, or it could be found true, but we can't comment on pending litigation.

When I first was contacted, I knew that something had to be done. The two things that kept running through my mind were the earthquake warning in 1990 - even though nothing happened, we dismissed school - and what has been done at other schools when bomb threats have been made.

We are committed to working with the union to find a reasonable compromise even for the dismissed employees.

You just don't have criminal trials dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct, intentional or unintentional.

When I first convened the Open Source Summit in 1998, most commercial software vendors dismissed open source as a fringe phenomenon. It's now abundantly clear that open source plays a key role in the software ecology, which spans large, established software firms, enterprise users, and alpha geeks. Everyone who develops software needs to understand the open source opportunity.

We've taken three through the process. Two were dismissed because they brought property into compliance. A third we've had a continuation. He's in the process, but he's not quite there.

The profits numbers will be mostly dismissed in the first quarter as a casualty of war. Now we'll see how much momentum we can pick up from the reverse of war negativity.

We're down to one (claim) and we're very confident that this will also be dismissed once the appropriate motion gets in front of the judge, given how the judge has ruled to date.

We dismissed the charges with no bail and no conditions.

We dismissed those ridiculous numbers out of hand, ... We are not going to pay compensation to confirm that they are living up to their obligations under this important nuclear agreement.

We believed all along that this rehearing request was nothing more than procedural maneuvering by R-CALF and are pleased that the court has dismissed it.

What I think is going to happen is that tests in relation to reasonable management action taken in a reasonable way is going to be blurred with those concepts of procedural fairness and what you're going to find is the QIRC considering appeals against decisions to grant workers compensation to dismissed employees where the employee was denied procedural fairness.

When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes.

We should point out that significant legal hurdles face the plaintiffs before they could prevail in these cases. Many of the agreements between the managed care companies and the physicians require arbitration and this could defuse the class actions ... However, we believe current HMO valuations assume these lawsuits will be dismissed out of hand. This is unlikely.

We ... want to resolve the dispute over the dismissed workers; however, that will not include the reinstatement of those who instigated and incited the walkout action and who harassed and intimidated those employees who chose to come to work during this difficult time.

Bears needn't be feared, nor should they be dismissed as harmless. They simply need to be respected.

These similarities can't be dismissed as mere coincidence. He was in the middle of it, just like he told you from the witness stand.

After long and serious deliberation, the men's basketball staff has dismissed Chris Rodgers, effective immediately, from the team. It should be noted that Chris has earned his college degree in three and a half years and that we wish him much success in all future endeavors.

Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.

While I had hoped every member of the executive board would have submitted a vote, I have spoken with a few teams during this process that said they were going to wait to find out what happens with certain claims filed before the National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor. We are confident that these claims are without merit and will be withdrawn or dismissed in the near future.

Both players are dismissed for conduct detrimental to the welfare of the football team.

A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we had to listen to Motown 'til our ears bled,

This is a result of the inadequate performance of the interior and defence ministers which has caused such a loss of life. They should stand in front of the national assembly and be questioned. If it is proven that they have failed to fulfil their responsibilities, they should be dismissed and stand trial.

In essence, the D.C. District Court of Appeals said the rights of terminally ill cancer patients must be protected and not dismissed lightly -- and we completely agree.

I'm calling into question consistently, since I've been on the board, a lack of the communication from you with regard to people that have been dismissed from the university.

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.

If you go back and check all the reviews for all the icons of today -- Elvis, the Beatles and so on -- they were dismissed as flashes in the pans,

In the video business moving on, this is going to be something of a tug of war for the reasons that protecting the artists? right is not something that should be automatically dismissed by the push-and-pull generation.

The Bangalore incident does not deserve to be dismissed as a stray, one-off case. It's a warning to the BPO industry and calls for a serious review of the situation as over 350,000 women are working in the sector in India.

Not many people in the U.S. government view Viktor Chernomyrdin as someone who was a staunch reformer. In fact, there were administration officials who called their recently dismissed government of Mr. Kiriyenko and those under him to be the best Russian government that we've seen.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

It's done. He was dismissed from the team on Monday. We're going to move forward.

In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

In other words, another RBNZ tightening cannot be dismissed yet. It is spending, not production, that is the target issue at present. And the factor that will determine whether another tightening is required.

If there is an attack on a nuclear plant with the weapons and tactics described -- weapons and tactics against which the Commission decided were not important to defend -- (the) records will reveal to the public exactly who ... dismissed the actual threats.

They want all cases dismissed -- state and federal cases -- and that will take time,

The importance of exports is critical to our economy. Thus, any disturbance in port operations cannot be dismissed lightly.

Although geopolitics cannot be dismissed entirely from a trading perspective, the impact on the capital markets is not expected to be long term.

The case is dismissed and we are very pleased with the outcome. It was everybody's decision that it was the appropriate resolution.

The case was on the verge of being dismissed at about the time she made contact with us.

You could have dismissed it six months ago as a one-time hit,

All members of the team have to abide by the team agreement. If they don't abide by it they can be dismissed from the team. They have been made aware of that in the letter. You can comment on your own performance and preparation and all those sorts of things but you do not comment on the performances of your fellow team members.

For all the people that have been dismissed over the past years, we've never had a turnout like this. We're hoping that somewhere along the line people realize there's been an injustice here and it needs to be corrected.

It's not enough that Judith Miller, we learned Saturday, is taking some time off and 'hopes' to return to the New York Times newsroom. She should be promptly dismissed for crimes against journalism, and her own newspaper.

Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration, let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand.

To have something like this happen to him is like having a safe dropped on him. To have these charges dismissed and be able to say, without even the need for a trial, that he was not involved in this is incredibly important to him.

We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.

According to our Eastern Mediterranean office, it's been dismissed as a case ... they got back to us that it was not avian influenza.

According to the court, there were no improprieties regarding honesty, expenses, gift giving; he just dismissed without merit all of those allegations. ... I think the chancellor's decision with regard to Mister Ovitz is rock solid.

The most elementary of investigative efforts, such as obtaining telephone and credit card records, were met without support, search warrants denied. The significant opinions of national experts were casually dismissed or ignored by the district attorney's office, even the experienced FBI were waved aside.

He actually dismissed the whole team and he showed us he wasn't playing. We haven't had a problem since.

If he brings Bush down below 40 percent and if Forbes could somehow get into the low 30s and make the margin single-digits, then Forbes gets more attention than he might otherwise. A lot of people here have pretty much dismissed him.

The litigation has been dismissed by the court this afternoon.