Dislike Quotes - Page 8

• As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

  Hans Rosling

  Microsoft Word, Use, Goldfish

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• When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Political, Demand, Doe

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• 'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces

  Kate Burridge

  Grace, Intellectual, Important

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• When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

  Roger Scruton

  People, May, Want

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• Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

  Ben Shapiro

  Reality, People, Freedom Of Speech

  Ben Shapiro (2015). “Ben Shapiro: Volume I”, p.54, Creators Publishing

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• If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?

  Timothy Keller

  Picks, Ifs

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• Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods! And even if we don't convince anybody, at least we'll have the satisfaction of drawing down on ourselves the punishment for out own deceit.

  Eusebius

  Drawing, Punishment, Miracle

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• Everybody has friends they dislike; people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious, more circumspect.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Cautious, Chosen

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• On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but off camera, it's just one big happy family. We hang out off the show and we play cards together and go have dinner together.

  Emilio Rivera

  Hate, Play, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Microsoft, Tactics

  Source: www.ibiblio.org

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• I also know that it's not about me, it's about all of you and it's about our country, I know that, I fully understand that. That's why I got involved. It's about all of us together as a country. It's a movement the likes of which we have never in history in this country seen before, never in history. Even the pundits, even the media - that truly dislikes Donald Trump for their own reasons - will admit this is a movement the likes of which people have never seen before.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Media, People

  Source: time.com

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• I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Order, Judging, Would Be

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.

  George Muller

  Brother, Father, Self

  "A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller, Vol. 2, part 4". Book by George Müller, 1855.

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• I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

  Bill Nighy

  Process, Animation

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• The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

  Ben Okri

  Law, Police, World

  Ben Okri (2014). “A Way of Being Free”, p.6, Head of Zeus

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• Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Healthy Habits, Comfort

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• The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Fear, Ideas

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• I really dislike when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental. As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well. I've been experimenting with these things myself in my own books.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Book, Work Out, People

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• But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Punishment, Affection, Natural

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• So you really cant think of anyone else who might want to kill you?"asked Jace. "Unlike in your case there arent actually all that many people who dislike me."said Simon.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Dislike Me, People

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• Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Years, Two, Forgiving

  Jonathan Carroll (2006). “Glass Soup”, p.58, Macmillan

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• There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger.

  Charlaine Harris

  Hey, Fingers, Hey You

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1043, Penguin

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• But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

  Lynn Barber

  Likes And Dislikes, Long, Opinion

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• I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.

  Mencius

  Warrior, Samurai, Martial Arts

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• Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

  Michael Arndt

  Adversity, Challenges, Self Improvement

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