Aversion Quotes

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Regard, Bordering, Closely

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Respect, Ambition, Secret

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.
Hillary Clinton

Strong, Both, China

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran

Jealousy, Secret, Worship

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

True, Friends, Loved

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.
Kristen Stewart

Sexy, Looking, Grown

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.
Jon Meacham

Life, Reason, American

In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.
Carroll Quigley

May, Fact, Table

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
Christian Bale

Parents, Boring, Bored

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Walter Benjamin

Art, Between, Social

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
Gary Bauer

Health, Government, Care

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

Music, Deep, Down

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Begin, Matrimony, Tis

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
Helen Clark

Strong, Social, Lies

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.
Gunter Grass

Writing, Place, Write

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Maria Edgeworth

Business, Pleasure

I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.
Peter Thiel

Last, Risk, Stuff

My only aversion to vice, is the price.
Victor Buono

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