Disgusted Quotes

• You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

  Eric Thomas

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

  Elvis Costello

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

  Song: Red Shoes

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• We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

  Mario Cuomo

  Desire, Disgusting

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• We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

  Charles Bukowski

  Should Have, Rose, Waiting

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• You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

  Eric Thomas

  Currents, Circumstances

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• No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own.

  Pete Doherty

  World, Chosen, My Own

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• Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Facts, Following

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.

  Georg Brandes

  Space, Envy, Hatred

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.22, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

  William James

  Expression, Asceticism, Ease

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.272, Library of America

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• If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.

  Steven Moffat

  Men, Wife, Worried

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• I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

  George Mason

  Justice, Common, Conviction

  Letter to Arthur Campbell, May 7, 1783.

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• That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Giving Up, Men, Important

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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• After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Book, Reading

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Anti Semitism

  "A Sermon for the West". Address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

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• My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

  Kurt Cobain

  Courage, Honesty, Fear

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• People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

  Craig Kilborn

  Sex, Years, People

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• I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

  William John Wills

  People, Might, Hearing

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.69, London : R. Bentley

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• I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

  Conrad Veidt

  Business, Stupid, Hate

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• The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Feminist, Suits, Bedtime

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• I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

  George McGovern

  Country, Thinking, Government

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• Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

  Jello Biafra

  Members, Let Me, Former

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• I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Depression, Discouraged, Disheartened

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• One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.

  Justin Zackham

  Wall, Ideas, One Day

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• It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Nice, Wine

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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