Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt’s revulsion at Tolstoy’s infantile, pathetic, endearing bon vivant—his categorical interpretation of healthy relationships versus unhealthy relationships—reveals a deep-seated disgust with physical… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child… I was even inclined to dig into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Disgust and shame are inherently hierarchical; they set up ranks and orders of human beings. They are also inherently connected with restrictions… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“I used to think that size does not count, until I realized that most people either find other people’s faeces more disgusting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The worst thing about falling in love with her so early in life was that he’d been an absolute snot at fourteen,… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“The man said that a portion of track just up into the mountain pass had been damaged by a rockslide early that… — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Okay? Okay ?" People in the hall stared at us. I realized I was practically shouting. "He's out of his mind. He… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“It had been a fix-up, a blind date set up by a well-meaning skinny coworker who had no clue that most men… — Sue Ann Jaffarian Copy Share Image
“You've felt guilty ever since, haven't you? That's why you're such a rogue reporter, with your exposés and your inside dirt. It's… — Maggie Shayne Copy Share Image
“I don't like it," said Lenina. "I don't like it." She liked even less what awaited her at the entrance to the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I could remember a half-dozen incidents in which I'd come much closer to death, but I could never recall any past moronic… — Dean Jones Copy Share Image
Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
“the disgust that exists indelibly between men and women and that you are always trying to purge with what you call frankness.… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“We cannot shrink in disgust from our neighbour's touch because his hands, that are clean now, were once dirty. We must cultivate,… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I think there's such disgust and frustration because of Trump that people see me as the vessel for that frustration. They see… — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
My mom grew up in extreme poverty, and always spoke of it with a look of disgust. She felt pressured to fit… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust,… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“France? Eugh. It’s so…full of the French,” she said. “I can’t stand it. The language, the culture, the wine, the food. All… — Debbie McGowan Copy Share Image
“Bitterness, principle of your determination, your mode of action, and understanding, is the one fixed point in your oscillation between disgust for… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I feel like one thing that messed me up was living in a homophobic and transphobic society, and just being the object… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I wasn’t sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I’d braced myself for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Caenis surveyed the celebrating crowd with naked disgust. Vaelin couldn’t hear the word he mouthed but the shape of his lips carried… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought…The little human animal will not at first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“At the first time, I do my best to try again against the inevitable tragedy. In the second time, I become disgusted… — Fredrica Bernkastel Copy Share Image
