Gloria Naylor Quotes

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.

It's lovely. I hate it.

One may like the love and despise the lover.

I don't like you, but I love you.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

It is horrid to smirk.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

... condescending SOBs

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves his esteem and respect.

I love the attention and I hate the attention, you know? It's not always good for your soul.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

If I'm screaming at someone, it's because I think they're an idiot.

I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.

I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.

Well, it's looks like I've a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

There is nothing worse than being in the middle, where fans just don't care. So I hope more than anything that they form an opinion of me one way or the other because I don't want to be the person they don't care about. They can boo me, they can cheer me, as long as there's some kind of reaction.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

She never liked me much, but she sure loved me