I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
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
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move… — Pema Chodron 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
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
To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. — Esa-Pekka Salonen 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
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. — Daniel Kahneman 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 have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to… — 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
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the… — Adolf Hitler 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
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions. — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
