#abhor

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request. ↗

— William Tyndale

#accept #appointed #divers #hear #i

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#because #civilization #democracy #him #imprison

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked. ↗

— Richard Dawson

#asked #best #child #does #grades

Nature abhors annihilation. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#annihilation #nature

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#almost #company #may #much #people

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#although #care #diligence #judgment #knowledge

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body. ↗

— James Larkin

#above #alien #all things #body #cancer

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#asset #frozen #nature

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#appreciated #bad #bad manners #good #good manners

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there. ↗

— David Miliband

#always #anything #clash #clear #closed