Ridiculed Quotations | Page 2

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.