“had long ceased to be a painful memory and become a merely distasteful one” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Because we find something distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem it criminal.” — Moby Copy Share Image
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake Copy Share Image
No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful. — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I… — Danny Brown Copy Share Image
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody… — John Currin Copy Share Image
All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical,… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
I've seen [Donald Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“I hope you do not consider me so distasteful?" She allowed herself to meet his amused gaze. No. Ralston was not distasteful.… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Whether my acting was obscene, or whether it was distasteful, well, Judge Rehnquist, who just recently passed away couldn't define pornography. His… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
It seems to be a general belief that the will of God is to make things distasteful for us, like taking bad-tasting… — Charles L. Allen Copy Share Image
“It is never too late to break off a marriage that’s distasteful to you. ” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal. — Moby Copy Share Image
While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process. — Marv Levy Copy Share Image
“Things are often exactly what they seem---horrifying or distasteful, even repugnant and disgusting.” — Norman Giddan Copy Share Image