Abhors Quotes

58 quotes by 55 authors

Nature abhors a garden. — Michael Pollan
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen? You will lose… — T. Harv Eker
This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going… — Leo Buscaglia
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. — Clare Boothe Luce
Nature abhors annihilation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature… — Gottfried Leibniz
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is… — Khalil Gibran
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. — Joseph Brodsky
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance. — Bernard DeVoto
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. — Albrecht Durer
Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason… — Huston Smith
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers… — Christian Wiman
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma… — Mark Slouka
The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the longest, and if… — Lewis Hyde
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are not the limitations… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment… — Henry David Thoreau
Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions. — Heinrich Heine
I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in… — Khalil Gibran

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