The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
“A mixture of feelings- love, distaste, revulsion, pity- rose in my throat…There was an eternity to that moment, that see-sawing split- second… — Liz Jensen Copy Share Image
Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even… — John Rabe Copy Share Image
“Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“Yes, there are good reasons for revulsion and fear. But revulsion and fear impair judgment. Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
“Life on the streets is short. People look at you in disgust, even the ones who give you alms, but this is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too… — Kim Paffenroth Copy Share Image
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The men digging in on both sides of me cursed the stench and the mud. I began moving the heavy, sticky clay… — Eugene B. Sledge Copy Share Image
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The best way to think about anarchism is as a combination of three levels. On the one hand, the sort of instinctual… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
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