I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions. — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change. — Frank Popoff Copy Share Image
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You’ve been unable to adjust to the idea of war.' 'Yes, sir.' 'You have a morbid aversion to dying.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
As a senior in high school my counselor recommended that I soften my science and math direction with an art course. Fortunately… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“In trying to make sense of this pessimism, Ridley, like Kahneman, sees a combination of cognitive biases and evolutionary psychology as the… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have an aversion to news nuggets, so I find myself looking for sites that offer more analysis. — Jeff Moss Copy Share Image
I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
