#repel

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels. ↗

— David Antin

#audience #choice #get #i #language

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#attraction #better #concern #forced #gaining

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian. ↗

— Robert Towne

#attracted #been #being #culture #ethnic

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#anything #human #human love #ill #keeps

...evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it... ↗

— John Geddes

#evil #mesmorize #repels #beauty

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#clear #conventional #danger #force #genuine

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#about #celebrity #celebrity culture #culture #end

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#dead #disturbs #novelty #originality #repels

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. ↗

— George Washington

#avoid #desire #instruments #insult #known

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building. ↗

— Kate Hudson

#building #climb #heights #i #i can