Aversion Quotes · Page 3

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

— Frank Popoff

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

— Douglas B. Reeves

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

— Laurie R. King

I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos.

— Lou Barlow

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

— Helen Clark

Two things in life I hate - one is technology, the other is forms. I just have an aversion to them.

— Gregg Wallace

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child…

— Alice Munro

If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion,…

— Alan Hirsch

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that…

— Tad Williams

I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of…

— Ellen Goodman

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government…

— Gary Bauer

“Though we may prefer ourselves to the universe, we nonetheless loathe ourselves much more than we suspect. If the wise man is…

— Emil Cioran

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

— George Santayana

I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my…

— Jim Webb

Maybe everyone else thinks your aversion to food is cute- but not me. I've watched you watch Jill. Here's some tough love:…

— Richelle Mead

Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or…

— Gerard De Nerval

What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the…

— Winston Churchill

“When it comes to love, there is the timeworn caution that the very qualities you fall hardest for may be those you…

— Julia Glass

The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans…

— Charles Petzold

What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but…

— Sylvester Graham

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we…

— Jack Kornfield

There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the…

— Carroll Quigley

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will…

— Honore de Balzac

The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

— Frederick Lenz

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

— John Constable

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

— Hillary Clinton

Aversion gives love its death wound and forgetfulness buries it. - Jean de la Bruyere

— Anonymous

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

— Pema Chodron

“He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general. "It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".”

— Patrick Carman

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

— David Hume

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

— Edward Gibbon

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

— Frederick Lenz

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't…

— Joni Mitchell

“Loss aversion helps produce inertia, meaning a strong desire to stick with your current holdings.”

— Richard H. Thaler

Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one…

— Allen Lacy