Quotes About Aversion

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Worse than jokes in the morning did she hate the idea of a husband.

I can't stand light. I hate weather.

I just don't enjoy poker that much.

I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.

I'm not a left midfielder. I hate that position, I don't like it.

The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.

I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it.

I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.

Most people cringe at the thought of a casserole.

I hate going out and being in crowds or being in clubs. I can't deal with it, and I don't like it; I've never liked it.

I have always been against coups, and I cursed them.

In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.

I just hate talking about myself.

The look she gives me isn't quite a sneer. It's more like she opened a garbage can and found a dead skunk inside.

Why is it you become obsessed with people you don't like that much?

People generally prefer problem-avoidance and problem-containment to problem-solving.

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

Adolph Knipe moved his feet on the carpet, and he watched the two small white hands of his chief, the nervous fingers playing with a paper clip, unbending it, straightening out the hairpin curves. He didn't like the man's hands. He didn't like his face either, with the tiny mouth and the narrow purple-coloured lips. It was unpleasant the way only the lower lip moved when he talked.

He disliked this girl and her boy-friend so much that he couldn't understand why they didn't dislike each other.

To all things clergic I am allergic.