Distasteful Quotes
60 quotes by 58 authors
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of…
— Charles Lamb
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There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and…
— Walter Russell
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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour…
— Kenneth Clarke
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I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint…
— Richard M. Nixon
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He…
— William James
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Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable…
— Cynthia Heimel
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It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
— Francis Drake
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The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food,…
— Gautama Buddha
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which…
— John Henry Newman
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Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children…
— Mary Ruwart
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
— Wilfred Owen
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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather…
— Francis Quarles
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Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.
— George Murphy
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The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live…
— Nelson A. Miles
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Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at…
— Mark Rippetoe
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Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious…
— B. W. Powe
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It seems to be a general belief that the will of God is to make things distasteful for us, like taking bad-tasting medicine when we…
— Charles L. Allen
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Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a…
— Michael Faraday
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I have never been one who is comfortable talking about my faith in the political arena. In fact, the pandering that typically occurs in the…
— Ron Paul
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Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
— Charles Spurgeon
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