#repel

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#country #french #i #repelled #their

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#choose #deem #deems #him #invade

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#i #i do #inventing #make #millions

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#create #mind #money #process #repelled

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