Dismissal Quotes

“She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

“Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Heri kufuta mashtaka kuliko kumfunga mtuhumiwa asiyekuwa na makosa. Kuonewa kunauma.”
― Enock Maregesi

“It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I believe that the one thing that has come out of this -- extraordinary -- meeting this morning is an awareness that we have, perhaps, been careless about the critical relationship between human and pegasus, careless in our resignation that no better bond than what we are accustomed to can exist. The king agrees with you that his daughter and Lrrianay's son suggest a different way. But the king's view, and indeed hope, for that way is diametrically opposed to your own. Bring what the histories can tell us both, and the councils will decide whose concept of the way forward has more merit.
The king is prepared to consider the possibility that your outburst arose from a dedication to the well-being of our country too profound for restraint; but he is only barely prepared so to consider it. You may leave us. Now.”
― Robin McKinley, Pegasus

“If you hadn't stolen my bride away in the night, Rhysand, I would not have been forced to take such drastic measures to get her back.'

I said quietly, 'The sun was shining when I left you.'

Those green eyes slid to me, glazed and foreign. He let out a low snort, then looked away again.

Dismissal.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Clinical rhetorics present serious challenges to disability disclosure. To claim autism is to claim rudeness, silence, tactlessness, nonpersonhood; it is to invite doubting others to lay-diagnose or question one's rhetorical competence. And yet it is precisely these claims and challenges that buttress much of the autistic culture movement's embrace of public disclosure, of uncloseting one's autism.”
― Melanie Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

“Trying to get Dartmouth College to acknowledge the behavioral problems in all staff that I supervised got me a final warning of dismissal, when no previous warnings had been received.”
― Steven Magee