Top 24 Abominate Quotes
#1. Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.
Abu Dhar Al-Ghifari
#2. Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story ...
Laurence Sterne
#3. Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous Huxley
#4. "Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy."
Charles Dickens
#5. Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.
Eric Hoffer
#6. I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!
John Lahr
#7. I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.
Jorge Luis Borges
#8. I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!
Fritz Leiber
#9. What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.
Christopher Hitchens
#10. Our very existence makes them abominate us, for it calls their own wives and daughters to aspire to freedom.
Steven Pressfield
#11. I abominate war as Unchristian. I hold it the greatest of human crimes. I deem it to involve all others,
violence, blood, rapine, fraud; everything that can deform the character, alter the nature, and debase the name of man.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
#12. You got me out of this place and here's your reward; you're everything we jointly abominate. The essence of what we're committed to destroy.
Philip K. Dick
#14. We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
Daniel Kahneman
#15. Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.
R.C. Sproul
#18. She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.
Sara Sheridan
#19. Vidalia, open those eyes and look at me. As with all things, we do this together, Darlin'.
Julia Mills
#20. Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios must display warning notices if there is real glass on the set, and the other day I was presented with a booklet explaining how to use a door. I am not kidding.
Jeremy Clarkson
#21. I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.
Tim Wise
#22. But then she'd trained her sister from an early age that she would always make everything okay. Whatever Tessa asked, she gave. No questions asked. Shahara
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. Saeed
Mohsin Hamid
#24. That's why so many people want to be victims today. So they don't have to accept the burden of being raised without historical calamity - without war or famine. They want an excuse for the fact they're still not happy.
Scott Turow