Quotes About Aversion

If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me,—less than nothing, because an object of aversion.

Calvin has a great aversion to theological speculation because he is convinced that things will go wrong when theology exceeds the limits of our knowledge of God.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Awe becomes simple fear all too easily. And when it does, what does that leave but hatred?

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes.

Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

It is possible to take against someone, then continue to loathe them out of pure prejudice.

I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.

Funny enough, I don't like vampires.

I never eat salad. I make sure I don't put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!

I don't like vegetables and most fruit.

I don't eat green things, no vegetables.

Man, I hate vegetables.

I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

No blood at all. I could hear that phrase repeat itself in my head, louder each time. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood. No splatter. NO BLOOD AT ALL. Why hadn't I thought of that?

I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out in New Year's Eve.

Nel caso attuale, per tornare al foglietto illustrativo delle pillole contro il mal di fegato, ne presentavo tutti i sintomi, senza possibilità di errore, e il principale era "una generale avversione nei confronti di qualsiasi tipo di attività".

Um auf das Faltblatt für Leberpillen zurückzukommen, so trafen die Symptome ohne jeden Zweifel auf mich zu, vor allem das der 'generellen Aversion gegen physische und mentale Anstrengungen'. Man kann sich gar nicht vorstellen, wie ich darunter leide. Schon in meiner frühesten Kindheit war ich damit geschlagen. (...) 'Los, du faules Stück, steh auf und mach dich nützlich', hieß es immer, und keiner ahnte, dass ich eigentlich krank war.

I have a strong aversion to Twitter, and yet there is a social obligation that forces me to pop in and spy on celebrities now and then. I don't get Twitter. It's impossible to follow conversation threads, and it's too easy to spend hours and hours clicking on random names, and the next thing you know, you've become infatuated with Tweet photos from the Kardashians.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

I hate being the subject of photographs.

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

Non l'ho letto e non mi piace.