Quotes About Aversion

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

It's lovely. I hate it.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

No lasting happiness comes from being caught in this cycle of attraction and aversion. We can never get life to work out so that we eliminate everything we fear and end up with all the goodies. Therefore the warrior-bodhisattva cultivates equanimity, the vast mind that doesn't narrow reality into for and against, liking and disliking.

This is the essence of risk aversion—that is, how far we are willing to go in making decisions that may provoke others to make decisions that will have adverse consequences for us.

You never get poor by taking a profit. It would follow that cutting your losses is also a good idea, but investors hate to take losses, because, tax considerations aside, a loss taken is an acknowledgment of error. Loss-aversion combined with ego leads investors to gamble by clinging to their mistakes in the fond hope that some day the market will vindicate their judgment and make them whole.

Our relationship with killing is ambivalent, a compound of pleasure and aversion. Both are deeply rooted in human nature, and neither can be extirpated.

His embarassment would have pleased me, but once he recovered, there would be that awkward period that sometimes culminates in a handshake. I didn't want to touch these people's hands or see things from their point of view, I just wanted to continue hating them. So I kept my mouth shut and stared off into space.

there'd be a lot of people there and he didn't like people, especially when they came in "lots.

I would return home to la maison, feminine where, as likely as not, I would go to my room, la chambre, where I would settle to read un livre masculine, until supper. During the masculine meal, feminine food would be eaten. After my hard, productive masculine day, I would rest during the feminine night. At one time, for a few days, I even took an affected aversion to being in the kitchen, la cuisine.

I'm actually not really adventurous when it comes to eating so I stick to things I like.

I don't like the taste of alcohol.

I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.

I hate rodents. I cannot stand rodents. I couldn't even watch 'Ratatouille,' which is an animated film.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Persian luxury, boy, I hate.

The book of Isaiah is a tract for our own times; our very aversion to it testifies to its relevance.

Often he declined invitations, because to accept meant that he had to dust off his brogues, iron a shirt, brush down his best suit, take a bath, and splash on some cologne. He had also to be affable, to drink and be merry, to talk to strangers with whom he had no inclination to talk and with whom he was not being paid to talk. In other words, he resented having to play the part of a normal human animal.

Favorite color: I hate colors.

Morse firmly believed that there was nothing so unsatisfactory as this kind of pornography; he liked it hot or not at all.