Repel Quotes

60 quotes by 54 authors

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able… — Adam Parfrey
Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel… — George Washington
My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from. — Nancy Astor
Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They… — Epictetus
Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other. — Benjamin Franklin
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat… — Theodore C. Sorensen
I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want,… — Mariah Carey
If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead… — Gregory Palamas
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too,… — Nelson Mandela
The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war. — Roger Sherman
It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by… — George Santayana
What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her. — Jamaica Kincaid
And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears,… — Marya Hornbacher
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping… — Annie Besant
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so… — Abraham Lincoln
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments… — George Washington
We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to… — James A. Baldwin
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title… — Rob Sheffield
We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ. — Eric Liddell
War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes… — Mitch Albom

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