Top 83 Quotes About Abhors
#1. Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
Albert Einstein
#2. Withstanding the cold develops vigor for the relaxing days of spring and summer. Besides, in this matter as in many others, it is evident that nature abhors a quitter.
Arthur C. Crandall
#4. Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
William Hazlitt
#5. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
Nikki Giovanni
#6. God abhors a naked singularity because that's when things stop making sense. Predictability breaks down. That's why the universe takes all its dirty little secrets and hides them in the centre of a black hole.
Gavin G. Smith
#7. Trying to get something for nothing?' - even mother nature abhors it.
Ufuoma Apoki
#8. To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
#11. But just as nature abhors a vacuum
so does the human heart.
Jojo Moyes
#12. Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum.
Brad Alan Lewis
#13. I've heard that nature abhors a vacuum - though if that's true, then I can't figure why about ninety-nine zillion percent of creation is vacuum.
Jim Butcher
#14. We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.
Hjalmar Soderberg
#15. Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.
John Dryden
#16. Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.
Frantz Fanon
#17. For if nature abhors a vacuum, and greed is part of human nature, then greed too abhors a vacuum.
Moises Naim
#18. Nature abhors a vacuum. At the very least, though, she felt that now there was nothing for her to hate.
Haruki Murakami
#19. Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#21. A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
Simone De Beauvoir
#22. As for Humphrey, he was never renowned for tidiness. "My nature abhors the vacuum," he said.
Tom Rachman
#24. Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.
William Hazlitt
#25. Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
Heinrich Heine
#26. History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
Bernard DeVoto
#27. Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#29. Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them neatly away so they don't upset people. Nature, in fact, abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the marie celeste, and the chuck keys from electric drills.
Terry Pratchett
#30. As someone who's very competitive, I'm someone who abhors losing more than I enjoy winning. In that regard, it hasn't been a great two months, but I think our players' attitude remains pretty resolute.
Skip Prosser
#31. Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
Albrecht Durer
#32. I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.
Richard Mourdock
#33. One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner
Saint Francis De Sales
#34. Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.
Joe Chung
#35. I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them ... Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?
Khalil Gibran
#36. The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.
Francis Schaeffer
#38. The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.
Michael Shermer
#39. No man, said the Nolan, can be a lover of the true or the good unless he abhors the multitude; and the artist, though he may employ the crowd, is very careful to isolate himself.
James Joyce
#40. 4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. 5 The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. 6 You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Anonymous
#41. I feel like nature abhors prolonged suffering. It does not allow it. It knocks you off if you got something chronic. But we somehow perpetuate that. Like we live day after day, year after year, our whole life under prolonged suffering. And that I would call cruelty.
Daniel Suelo
#42. The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
David Mitchell
#43. ( ... ) and it will be easier, remember, to bend thy will to love one who adores thee, than to lead one to love thee who abhors thee now.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#44. Aomame tried her best to keep her mind clear of any thoughts, but it was impossible not to think of anything. Nature abhors a vacuum.
Haruki Murakami
#45. Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure.
Alan Bradley
#46. History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#47. If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.
John Connolly
#48. The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
#49. What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.
John Locke
#50. If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts;
Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void
Deanne Williams
#51. Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.
James Larkin
#52. Jesus abhors both passivity and violence as responses to evil.
Walter Wink
#53. What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
Joseph Brodsky
#54. Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
Mark McKinnon
#57. So it is that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, philosophy abhors an answer, for once the truth is truly attained, the game is truly up.
Dan Garfat-Pratt
#58. Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.
Terry Pratchett
#59. Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.
Andrea Dworkin
#60. The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability.
Terry Goodkind
#61. Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
Fernand Braudel
#63. Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
George Will
#64. There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.
J.M. Coetzee
#68. We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.
Peter Kuznick
#71. Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.
George Washington
#72. The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
David Mitchell
#73. The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.
Robin McKinley
#74. From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."
Soseki Natsume
#75. Since nature abhors a vacuum, the void must be in you.
Marty Rubin
#76. 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
#77. I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.
Toni Bentley
#79. The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
Watchman Nee
#80. The divinization of Man, when one abhors the order of the world as essentially evil, is a risky and self-contradictory venture.
Czeslaw Milosz
#81. This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
Leo Buscaglia
#82. Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.
Vanna Bonta