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Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. -- Emile M. Cioran
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it. -- Kristen Stewart
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
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
My only aversion to vice, is the price. -- Victor Buono
A Coy Aversion...a fluttertoo shyto be seen... -- Muse
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. -- Maria Edgeworth
Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done. -- Ram Dass
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. -- Marcus Aurelius
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. -- Hermann Hesse
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil. -- Thomas Hobbes
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt. -- Rosemary Mahoney
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
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. -- Samuel Johnson
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world. -- Joan Baez
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. -- Hermann Hesse
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward. -- Adolf Hitler
I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems. -- Robert Benchley
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration of this point produces a profound change in the individual's response to the world. Grasping and aversion is greatly diminished, and the emotional tangles that once seemed so compelling are experienced as the tug of dream stories, and no more. -- Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme. -- Conor Oberst
Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs. -- Hillary Clinton
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. -- Helen Clark
I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel. -- Bob Newhart
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises. -- Ellen G. White
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead. -- Joni Mitchell
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities. -- Ben Bernanke
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
I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights. -- Bob Weir
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
You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion. -- Henepola Gunaratana
I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part. -- Mae Whitman
If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying. -- Neal Asher
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump. -- Michael Arrington
I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music. -- Frans de Waal
I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up all over me, so I've had an aversion to it all my life and hate sitting down in the make-up chair. -- James Nesbitt
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. -- Mahavira
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities. -- Martha Beck
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
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
Value investing is risk aversion. -- Seth Klarman
I have an aversion to conformity. -- Jeremy Enigk
I've always had an aversion to debt. -- Brunello Cucinelli
I have a congenital aversion to failure. -- Abraham Lincoln
I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways. -- Peter Diamandis
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion. -- Joseph Addison
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust -- Samuel Beckett
I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy. -- Neil Gaiman
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery. -- Laurie R. King
[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war. -- Edward Gibbon
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature. -- John Constable
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. -- Daniel Kahneman
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship. -- Sallust
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change. -- Alan Hirsch
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. -- Douglas B. Reeves
Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship. -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change. -- Frank Popoff
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss. -- Seth Klarman
When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down. -- Jens Nordvig
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. -- Pema Chodron
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. -- Mark Twain
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. -- Karl Kraus
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. -- George Washington
In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate. -- Paul Singer
As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect. -- Ivan Turgenev
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds. -- J. Paul Getty
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. -- Tove Jansson
I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones. -- David Hume
We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different. -- Iyanla Vanzant
In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it. -- Frederick Lenz
The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion. -- Mallory Ortberg
Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom -- Joseph Goldstein
Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting. -- Allen Lacy
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind. -- Karl Popper
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference. -- John Dewey
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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. -- Honore de Balzac
While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined. -- Seth Klarman
The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference. -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues. -- Peter Lynch
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation. -- Burt Rutan
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
The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality. -- Hozier
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away. -- Frederick Lenz
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away. -- Frederick Lenz
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul. -- Epicurus
I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't. -- David Cronenberg
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian. -- Ambrose Bierce
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. -- William Monahan
Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered. -- Tad Williams
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. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death. -- Frederick Lenz
There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death. -- Frederick Lenz

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