Repel Quotes

60 quotes by 53 authors

The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be… — C.S. Lewis
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally… — Louis D. Brandeis
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can… — Karen Armstrong
How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil. — Marcus Aurelius
Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature… — Paul Brunton
While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself. — Elias Lyman Magoon
Repel the thought, for if you don't, it becomes an idea. So repel the idea, for if you don't it will become a desire. So… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered… — Alfred Marshall
I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. — Mariah Carey
A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill. — Johnny Olson
I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building. — Kate Hudson
It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly… — Rachel Held Evans
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male… — Camille Paglia
It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from… — Nathanael Greene
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us… — John Burroughs
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water,… — Gautama Buddha
There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't. — Rachael Bermingham
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from… — Benjamin Franklin
While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still… — Pope Benedict XVI
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to… — Ibn Hazm

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