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Quotes About Aversion

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.
~ Cy Twombly
I don't like video games.
~ Brandon Ingram
I'm really picky about stuff like videos or even pictures of the band, but at the same time, I don't really know what it is I want; I just know what I don't want.
~ Adam Granduciel
It seemed that Miss Marks and Leo had found in each other the personification of everything they disliked most.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don't like knives. I don't even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bloodying.
~ Jim Butcher
Do not read what you don't like
~ Jim Butcher
Visible mourning reminds us of death, which is construed as unnatural, a failure to manage the situation. "A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty," Philippe Ariès wrote to the point of this aversion in Western Attitudes toward Death. "But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.
~ Joan Didion
Visible mourning reminds us of death, which is construed as unnatural, a failure to manage the situation. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty, Philippe Aries wrote to the point of this aversion in Western Attitudes toward Death. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.
~ Joan Didion
I cannot fathom how people stand Blackberry phones. I cannot hold one for a minute without being overwhelmed with the urge to smash it.
~ Unknown
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
~ George Chapman
Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
~ Unknown
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.
~ Unknown
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
~ W.C. Fields
Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.
~ Mickey Mantle
I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
~ David Tudor
I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.
~ Roz Chast
They were not the only couple on earth for whom mistrust and mutual aversion furnished the indestructible foundation for a long-standing union.
~ Philip Roth
Guys with small dry lips, they turn me off, or if they smell bookish—you know, this dry pencil smell of men.
~ Philip Roth
Peter was leaning his elbows on the end of the table, a piece of bread smeared with peanut butter in his hands, chewing wide eyed with his mouth open. Wally tried not to look. Whenever Wally was really hungry at school and didn't think he could hold out until noon, he thought about the way half-chewed bread and peanut butter looked in Peter's mouth, and he wasn't hungry anymore.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Our men have aversion spells on their hats," Gnifty continued. She was really quite talkative, now that the ice had been broken. "So that no big monsters come near, just creatures small enough to be hunted at night. When a dragon is near, they cry, 'Hang onto your hat!
~ Piers Anthony
If there is one thing that the average woman detests more than another, it is an entirely reasonable man.
~ Unknown
Shane held the jewelry at arm's length, dangling it like a dead rat. No way in hell am I caught dead or alive wearing that.
~ Rachel Caine