Quotes About Aversion

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.

Yes, ma'am, I like raspberry cake, only I like it better with no poison or scorpions in it.

But what ultimately made Yates the scourge of copy editors was his simple aversion to criticism; any emendation in his manuscript, be it a single semicolon, would cause dark alcoholic brooding, which would finally erupt in long, hectoring, semicoherent phone calls.

Dee Dee moved closer to Ash. She smelled the way only a beautiful woman can, like honeysuckle and lilacs and some form of ambrosia. Her proximity was a distraction. He didn't like that.

enjoyed everything I disapproved of, and disliked my ingenuous diversions.

The point of this chapter's unflattering précis of nascent American medicine is not to castigate it for its primitivism, but to put blacks' historical aversion to medical care into context, for most antebellum blacks were subjected to southern medicine. The

A yacht is not for me. I don't enjoy it.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

I still dislike phones, yeah!

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice good-heartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they will do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.10

Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice good-heartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they will do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.

Be free of attachment and aversion. Keep your mind pure. And unite your mind with the Buddha.

By the power and the truth of this practice: May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the causes of happiness; May they be free from suffering and the causes of suffering; May they never be separated from the great happiness devoid of suffering, And may they dwell in the great equanimity that is free from attachment and aversion.

pero a quien ha conocido la embriaguez exquisita, dichosa y pura de la creación, le repugna el aguardiente como un matarratas.

If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

What do you think I want with men? The beasts! I hate them. Blind, stupid, clumsy, horrible, heavy, vulgar things they are.

It was an argument about the precautionary principle v. the scientist's desire not to make a mistake, coupled with risk aversion that was all too characteristic of public health bureaucrats. It was literally driving Carter nuts.

They were "risk averse." But what was this thing that everyone had been calling "risk aversion?" It amounted to a fee that people paid, willingly, to avoid regret: a regret premium.

The more you get to know someone, the more there is to dislike. If you get to know them well enough, you hate them.

I have a sister who is technophobic; she doesn't even use a computer.

I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up all over me, so I've had an aversion to it all my life and hate sitting down in the make-up chair.