Repelled Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the… — Saint John Chrysostom
When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our… — Deepak Chopra
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could… — John Kenneth Galbraith
God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they… — Nicolas Chamfort
Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet… — John Dickinson
Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been… — Alice Munro
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg
The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child. — Ann Voskamp
The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so… — Charles Bukowski
What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been… — Judith Perelman Rossner
It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption. — Carl Jung
All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did… — Raymond Smullyan
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. — William Blake
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or… — Henry Watson Fowler
I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by… — Jonathan Gottschall
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. — Anderson Cooper
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. — William Ralph Inge

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