#repulsive

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#attractive #attractiveness #immodest #immodesty #modest

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable. ↗

— Selma Blair

#get #i #kind #me #never

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#be true #demand #detail #fit #homogeneity

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#everywhere #find #flying #i #just

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#away #blessed #carries #country #earth

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really. ↗

— James Purefoy

#beings #casual #cool #each #ever

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#alms #disgusting #earth #even #gives

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#bloody #effort #even #every #forms