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Quotes About Aversion

She hated cleaning up after making something.
~ Patricia Highsmith
At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.
~ Dan Simmons
These regions very likely underlie what traditional texts see as the root causes of suffering—attachment and aversion—where the mind becomes fixated on wanting something that seems rewarding or on getting rid of something unpleasant.
~ Daniel Goleman
I hate that mouse
~ Daniel Keyes
think I have sort of an odd aversion, almost like a chemical sensitivity, when it comes to other people's enthusiasm.
~ Wendy McClure
All strong characters and peoples are race conscious and are instinctively averse to marriage outside their own racial group.
~ Will Durant
we do not desire things because they give us pleasure; but they give us pleasure because we desire them;
~ Will Durant
you miserable vomitous mass
~ William Goldman
Compounding this preference for the status quo is another bias called loss aversion, which says that we find losses more painful than gains are pleasant.
~ Chip Heath
Yes," Bell admitted. "I have no idea how it could have happened, when she wasn't even tripping." "Clearly she was the one who was foremost in your thoughts in that moment," Walter said. "Not that I blame you, given her apparent aversion to brassieres, but that's something for us to analyze later.
~ Christa Faust
laurig, shy of making decisions and happy to procrastinate.
~ Heinz Linge
The word 'personal' is one of my aversions. Personal loan. Personal hygiene. Personal safety. It's only a way of wrapping up bad news that you're in debt, or dirty, or likely to be mugged.
~ Helen Dunmore
Sometimes you just don't like somebody
~ Henry Ford II
I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
~ Henry Miller
To me you are detestable, disgusting—a stranger, yes, a perfect stranger!' She uttered that word stranger, so terrible to herself, with anguish and hatred.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Così, dall'ansia di perdere certe gioie appena gustate, dall'innata avarizia, dall'oscuro disprezzo per i propri simili, prontamente cogliendo l'occasione che la sorte gli offriva, con grave ma lucido azzardo, Giuseppe Vella si fece protagonista della grande impostura.
~ Leonardo Sciascia
I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.
~ levant oscar
I wasn't into going to college for four years and that whole dorm thing. I had such an aversion to it. It's an extended vacation, isn't it?
~ Sherilyn Fenn
I would sooner stick needles in my eyes. And why are you holding on to your eyebrows?
~ Jasper Fforde
There is a perverse stubbornness in preserving a space of ill-will, of rejection of the world and the political order. But also justified aversion for the idea of our collective assumption into the firmament of the operational, of general, simulated reconciliation. We already have to few enemies. In this age of socialist synergy, do we also have to cultivate consensus?
~ Jean Baudrillard
I had as much desire to eat with him as I had to hang myself.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
I literally hate working out.
~ Olivia Munn
I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
~ Agatha Christie