#abhor

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed? ↗

— Solomon Short

#another #conservation #energy #fittest #hero

I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind. ↗

— Garth Nix

#garth-nix #sabriel #love

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#afford #any #commendation #contempt #due

You must show the world that you abhor fighting. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#fighting #must #show #world #you

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. ↗

— Tony Blair

#any #find #hands #his #hussein

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#be true #even #false #hazard #i

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#am #analysis #atmosphere #crave #dull

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#condemn #embrace #equality #hand #immigration

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent. ↗

— Davey Havok

#always #appealing #fact #found #i

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. ↗

— James Joyce

#being #church #heresy #human #human being