Dislike Quotes - Page 9

• Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Littles, Sometimes

  "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.

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• we dislike those we've injured.

  Ruth Rendell

  Injured

  Ruth Rendell (2010). “The Lake Of Darkness”, p.224, Random House

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• I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Mean, Thinking, Expression

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• I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

  James Joyce

  Art, Perfection, Prepared

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.3868, e-artnow

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• What I really, hugely, and antagonistically dislike is the attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. And if you are a branding consultant, you have to accept that there are a lot of things you just cannot quantify.

  Wally Olins

  Accepting, Branding, Consultants

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• I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Depressing, Struggle, Responsibility

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• If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Sunshine, Simple, Night

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America

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• If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Justice, Doubt, Together

  Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

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• Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

  Kate Millett

  Laughter, Anger, Numbers

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.45, Columbia University Press

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• We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Real, Men

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• I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.

  Jessica Raine

  Girly, Feel Good, Shirts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Successful, Hard

  "Malcolm Gladwell Shares The Single Most Important Factor Of A Person's Success" by Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. October 8, 2014.

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• I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

  Frank O'Hara

  Past, Sides, Deals

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.500, Univ of California Press

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• Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.

  William H. Masters

  Eye, Heart, Acceptance

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• this was I and not yet I, this was the wife of the President of the United States and she took precedence over me; my personal like and dislikes must be subordinated to the consideration of those things which were required of her

  Grace Coolidge

  Wife, President, United States

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• The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.

  Charlotte Charke

  Character, Men, Envy

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• These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.

  Stephen King

  Country, Hate, Heart

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• If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!

  Margery Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

  Lucy Freeman

  Fear, Defense, Persons

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• Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

  Maria Monk

  Book, Catholic, Different

  Maria MONK, William MONK (pseud?.), Rev. J. J. SLOCUM (1837). “Awful Disclosures ... Second edition, revised by the Rev. J. J. Slocum”, p.40

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• I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer?

  Edgar Saltus

  Children, Philosophy, Book

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• People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

  Suzy Amis

  Likes And Dislikes, People, Meat

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• If you feel an aversion to a person--that is, an unexplainable feeling of dislike or distaste for him--it is the most dangerous time for a proper opinion of him, his character, or his actions. Any judgment you pass upon him at such a time is bound to be unfair.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Character, Justice, Feelings

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.50, Sophia Institute Press

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• If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice?

  Mike Royko

  Gay, Orange, Ceilings

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• I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Art, I've Learned, Critics

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