Aversion Quotes

149 quotes by 128 authors

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to… — Agnes Repplier
Maybe everyone else thinks your aversion to food is cute- but not me. I've watched you watch Jill. Here's some tough love: you will never,… — Richelle Mead
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter… — Mark Twain
In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that is itself open,… — Sharon Salzberg
Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake.… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme. — Conor Oberst
I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a… — Frans de Waal
I have an aversion to news nuggets, so I find myself looking for sites that offer more analysis. — Jeff Moss
I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel. — Bob Newhart
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery. — Laurie R. King
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk.… — Michael Arrington
When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor at an airport.… — Scott Stossel
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear… — Rosemary Mahoney
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these… — Mahavira
Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more willing to enter… — Sendhil Mullainathan
In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate. — Paul Singer
If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because,… — Neal Asher
I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways. — Peter Diamandis
When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down. — Jens Nordvig
In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups,… — Carroll Quigley

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