Quotes About Distaste

She had a vague distaste for death, which was just sufficiently stronger than her apathy to preserve her existence.

Such a wave of distaste that I could feel it through the senso, despite our incompatible neurologies.

I was standing one day on the front stoop, and as he came out of the building I said, "Jeremy, sometimes when I stand here, I can't believe Im really in New York City. I stand here and think, Whoever would have guessed? Me! I'm living in the City of New York!" And a look went across his face--so fast, so involuntary--that was a look of real distaste. I had not yet learned the depth of disgust city people feel for the truly provincial.

I had a good classical education, and a positive distaste for business of any kind; that was the capital with which I faced the world [...] I reflected, then, on my want of prospects, and I determined to embark in literature. - Really; that was strange. You seem to be in pretty comfortable circumstances, though.

I won't eat anything green.

She hated television but flicked through the channels until she hated it even more....

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

This is something of a paradox in that the transgression—crime perhaps—of America has been to reject Classicism for Romanticism. The national distaste for moderation—to which Henry Adams referred—inevitably leads to such a choice.

For the King's distaste at the idea of a mistress, Marie Antoinette can hardly be blamed; yet somehow she was turned into the scapegoat of this upsetting of the natural order of things-as the French court saw it.

Antinomianism may be couched in doctrinal and theological terms, but it both betrays and masks the heart's distaste for absolute divine obligation, or duty. That

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than by faith to die with Christ to our old seductions, that is, to gain a distaste for them because of a superior satisfaction in God.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God." Desiring God, 12.

It's a terrible painting," said Della, backing away from it with distaste. "There's definitely something wrong with the mayonnaise," said Lucy. "It looks almost curdled, as if she added the oil too quickly." "I don't know anything about mayonnaise," said Della. "It's just a terrible painting. I don't blame Dr. Vanlandingham." "But I like the idea of it, said Roger. "A portrait of a sandwich.

disconnect between people's distaste for government and their attraction to its manifestations.

The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them.

What seems to be unspeakable weakness can sometimes be just distaste for the generally accepted morality.

A man who would contract the mumps,' declared Cecilia, 'would do anything!' Lady Ombersley saw nothing unreasonable in this pronouncement, nor was she surprised that his lordship's unromantic behaviour had given Cecilia a distaste for him.

Indeed, my fear is that my overbearing, self-willed ways may have given you a distaste of me which not all my future efforts may serve to eradicate.

Power games and manipulation were like air in the Mirador and despite a new distaste for their childishness, I was breathing deeply.

Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!" Snowpaw was circling frantically, flicking her tongue like an adder

Intimacy with one person could do this-empty the world of friendships, give a distaste for women's kisses and their bright chatter, make the ordinary world a little unreal and very uninteresting.

Gelatin fed to animals, the committee reported, was found to "excite an intolerable distaste to a degree which renders starvation preferable.