Quotes of: Distasteful Keyword

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

Tim Gunn

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Francois Truffaut

For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not- self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the things around me. To this new-born Not- self, the behavior, the appearance, the very thought of the self it had moment...

The Doors of Perception

A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it. But if the man were to come with the doll and sit before a man in love, and begin caressing his doll as the lover caressed the woman he loved, it would be distasteful to...

Anna Karenina

What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions u...

Illyrian Spring

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Jeff Tweedy

'Cougar' has become so distasteful. I really hate that expression.

Demi Moore

There is not a racist bone in my dad's body. He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes.

Alan Wilson

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

Francis Bacon

When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.

Dr Paul Enenche

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

Harold Brodkey

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

Tom Hollander

We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.

Yishan Wong

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

Khalil Gibran

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

Wilfred Owen

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.

Hermann Hesse

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

Dan Farmer

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Joyce Maynard

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

Graydon Carter

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Sun Tzu