Dislike Quotes - Page 26

• The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Kids, Parent, Nests

  "What I've Learned: Dustin Hoffman" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2007.

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• I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

  Rex Stout

  Children, Book, Sleep

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• I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Mets, Persons

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• I wonder if Dave Bearden still dislikes me.

  Ted Berrigan

  Dislike Me, Wonder, Dave

  Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan (2005). “The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan”, p.68, Univ of California Press

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• Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.

  Dalai Lama

  Strong, Losing, Temper

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• I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Flower, People, Landscape

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• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.

  J. K. Rowling

  Long, Damage, Wizards

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• We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.

  John Burroughs

  Practice, People, Mass

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.48, Syracuse University Press

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• We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fighting, Ideas, Substitutes

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.105, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• He's the type of bloke you would want to have on your side. When you see an Indian side with Ganguly in the line-up, you know it's game on. You don't have to like or dislike him. You have to respect him.

  Steve Waugh

  Your Side, Games, Lines

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• I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

  Maya Angelou

  Men, Married, Treated

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• If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

  Ajahn Chah

  Likes And Dislikes, Stills, Following

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• It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

  Stephen Fry

  Cute, Gay, Racism

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.128, The Overlook Press

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• You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Matter, Wanted

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• its difficult to dislike a man who takes pleasure in giving away free beer.

  Kevin Hearne

  Beer, Men, Giving

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “Trapped: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Five”, p.126, Del Rey

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• We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Talking, Explanation, Needed

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.13, Beacon Press

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• People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking.

  George Carlin

  Song, Hate, Eye

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• The trouble with a lot of modern theology and a lot of modern thinking about God, is that we think of God a sort of being like ourselves, but bigger and better with likes and dislikes similar to our own.

  Karen Armstrong

  Thinking, Likes And Dislikes, Bigger And Better

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to kill Muslims and Jews and cried, "God will's it." That was their battle cry. Obviously God willed no such thing. The Crusaders were simply projecting onto a deity they'd created on their own image and likeness, all their hatred and loathing of these faiths and made it endorse some of their most awful prejudices and lethal prejudices.

  Karen Armstrong

  Likes And Dislikes, People, Hatred

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Likes And Dislikes, Mind, Born

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• I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Smell, Allegory

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• Not that I dislike McDonalds, but things must be pretty bad in Moscow if people are willing to wait three hours for large fries.

  Mark Patinkin

  Mcdonalds, People, Waiting

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• Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

  Oliver DeMille

  Class, Leader, Political

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• The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Hatred, Aim Of Education

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• Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for what I ain't (...) put me up on a pedestal or drag me down in the dirt (...) this is who I am, you can like ir or not, you can love me or leave me cuz I'm never gonna stop

  Madonna Ciccone

  Who I Am, Dislike Me, Pedestal

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