Quotes About Aversion

I don't like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don't like them in the first place.

He came over and held out his hand. I shook it. It was as clammy as a dead fish. Clammy hands and the people who own them make me sick.

Clammy hands and the people who own them make me sick.

But he - he hated pity as a cat hates water.

The thought of her hands touching his hair makes me want to vomit.

There was no logical reason why he did not have eggs in the house. It was just that he felt slightly uncomfortable when they were there. Also, he did not like to buy eggs. Something about the cartons put him off and he did not like the fact that they came in dozens.

Years later, my father made a passing reference to the uncanny-valley response—the human aversion to things that look almost but not quite like people. The uncanny-valley response is a hard thing to define, much less to test for. But if true, it explains why the faces of chimps so unsettle some of us.

Hathos," I offered finally and then thoughtfully provided the definition. "The pleasure you get from hating something.

without batting an eye. She hated how much

Lydia asked, "Do you have a problem with drugs and alcohol?" Claire struggled to return the glass to the floor. "Yes. The problem is that I don't like them very much.

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.

Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.

As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

I don't like pop music.

...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.