Quotes About Aversion

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

She'd got so used to not wanting to go out and be sociable that saying no had become her natural default setting. The moment anyone invited her anywhere, her brain began scrambling for plausible excuses as to why she couldn't make it.

Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

Começou a me dar um certo nojinho dele. É horrível quando isso acontece, tão horrível que muita gente se recusa a reconhecer que passou por isso, mas a verdade é que, antes de a gente se livrar de alguém, às vezes dá um nojinho. Horrível, até porque a pessoa pode não ter culpa, mas de repente fica nojenta, cheiros inaceitáveis, manchas de pele insuportáveis, roupas sujas repelentes, hálito ascoso, cabelo fedido, tudo irremediavelmente nojento.

A sensitive nose isn't always that great a gift. Plenty of smells are better unsmelt.

It seemed as if his desire of her affection increased with his knowledge of the loss of it; and the very circumstance which should have roused his aversion, by a strange perversity of disposition, appeared to heighten his passion, and to make him think it impossible he could exist without her.

At the moment that quitting becomes the objectively best choice, in practice things generally won't look particularly grim, even though the present does contain clues that can help you figure out how the future might unfold. The problem is, perhaps because of our aversion to quitting, we tend to rationalize away the clues contained in the present that would allow us to see how bad things really are.

When it comes to our aversion to closing accounts in the losses, the pass-fail nature of goals makes this problem worse. As soon as you set a goal or a target, you put yourself immediately in the losses, at least in relation to your distance from the goal. As soon as you cross the starting line, you are now short of the finish line.

When we're choosing among new options, loss aversion causes us to favor the ones that have the lowest absolute loss associated with them, even if those options come at a lower expected value. In other words, our aversion to taking a loss causes us to make decisions a rational actor would not.

Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.

I know I'm not a regular fellow, yet I loathe anybody else that isn't.

Please do not have a band, as I do not care for music.

Elle était incurablement malhonnête. Elle ne supportait pas d'être mise en échec et, pour compenser cette fragilité, je pense qu'elle s'était exercée à mentir dès son plus jeune âge, afin de présenter au monde un sourire d'insolence glaciale tout en cédant aux exigences de son tempérament avide et cynique.

Supposez que vous tombiez un jour sur quelqu'un d'aussi imprudent que vous? — J'espère que ça n'arrivera pas. Je déteste les imprudents. C'est pour ça que vous me plaisez.

We're convalescents. Most of us are people who never learned an art or a trade, not even the art of enjoying life. Since we're basically averse to prolonged social contact, even the greatest of friends tend to bore us after half an hour; we only long to see them when we think about seeing them, and the best moments we spend with them occur in our dreams.

All day Joy sat on her neck in a deep chair, reading. Sometimes she went for walks but she didn't like dogs or cats or birds or flowers or nature or nice young men. She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

I'm not a fan of baseball really.

I'm not a fan of Stillwater.

I don't know why, but I don't fancy writing love songs; I never have.