Quotes of Repugnance - somelinesforyou

“ Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ This is an abomination of justice. ”

- Tom Delay

“ A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do. ”

- John Warner

“ In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion. ”

- Edward Everett

“ Taste is a result of a thousand distastes. ”

- Francois Truffaut

“ I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. ”

- Edward Hall

“ The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure. ”

- Nikki Giovanni

“ Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen,. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. ”

- Italo Calvino

“ Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it. ”

- William Feather

“ Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ”

- Frances Bacon

“ Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ”

- Kahlil Gibran
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