Quotes About Repulsion

With the men standing between five feet eight and five feet ten, they were inches taller than the average Spanish soldier—taller than Cushing. The twice repulsion of a formidable conquistador and the dispossession of his dreams made the Calusa larger-than-life figures in European New World mythology.

Lindbergh would later write: "I shared the repulsion that democratic peoples felt in viewing the demagoguery of Hitler, the controlled elections, the secret police. Yet I felt that I was seeing in Germany, despite the crudeness of its form, the inevitable alternative to decline.

My ambivalence, of course, only encouraged him. Any challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure. If I had loved him, he would have been gone, yet my revulsion brought him back and back. He

There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.

People tended to be fascinated or repelled by him, as he was very direct in his approach to people and was impatient of any pretentiousness.

My ambivalence, of course, only encouraged him. Any challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure. If I had loved him, he would have been gone, yet my revulsion brought him back and back.

I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.

The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.

We find desiring innocent, and hideous that the other should desire.

He had, indeed, one of the advantages which men who have lived and moved in society enjoy over those, however intelligent, who have not, namely that they no longer see it transfigured by the longing or repulsion which it inspires, but regard it as of no importance.

The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.

ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

For the present, it is easier for us to turn away. Our repulsion, you see, will not spur us to revolt until this plague moves much closer to home.

for the words had dampened his ardour irretrievably. It was just like being asked to drink nectar from a piss-pot. She

Lamb chop, yuk.

Precum magne?ii cu aceea?i polaritate, cu cât încerci s?-i apropii, cu atât se dep?rteaz? mai mult. Sau precum atomii care se atrag unul c?tre cel?lalt, dar se resping când încerci s?-i pui unul lâng? altul. Ca dou? persoane prinse în u?ile turnante - oricât de mult dorim s? ne întâlnim, nu e chip s? se întâmple.

I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later.

A dark god. And she knew that thought was her own. Because the very thing that repelled her about Raphael also attracted her. Power.

You look as if you have bitten into a turd.

He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourslef to crush in your own hand disgusts you.

No querían tocarlo; les inspiraba el mismo asco que una araña gorda a la que no se quiere aplastar con la mano.

And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.