Aversion Quotes - Page 2

Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots.

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.

I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life without holding back. This didn't mean I was going to ignore my flaws and stop seeking to improve what I could. But in the deepest way, I was not going to fixate on the conclusion that something was wrong with me.

The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

I have an aversion to conformity.

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.