Top 100 Quotes About Dislikes
#1. I wondered where Cohn got that incapacity to enjoy Paris. Possibly from Mencken. Mencken hates Paris, I believe. So many young men get their likes and dislikes from Mencken.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. He feels an irrational dislike taking root, and he tries to dismiss it, because he prefers his dislikes rational, but after all, these circumstances are extreme ...
Hilary Mantel
#3. It's not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.
Seanan McGuire
#4. We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
Karen Armstrong
#5. If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#6. Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Catiline
#7. We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.
Faith Baldwin
#8. ...she wears a summer nightgown, white cotton trimmed with a token bit of lace at the neck and sleeves. She dislikes the itchiness of the lace against her skin, the sense of delicate entrapment.
Beatriz Williams
#9. You have a family," Mikhail said gently. "I am your family. Raven is your family. Our child will be, and of course you have Jacques. Someday you will have children." He sent a slight grin in Gregori's direction. "You can even claim the healer as family. We do, although he dislikes it intensely.
Christine Feehan
#10. In truth, Jude suspected that Danny had no particular musical preferences, no strong likes or dislikes, and that the radio was just background sound, the auditory equivalent of wallpaper.
Joe Hill
#11. The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
Sydney J. Harris
#12. A clergyman generally dislikes to be met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose,
Anthony Trollope
#13. There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#14. You know, I don't think your brother dislikes you as much as you think. After all, he gave up a kingdom to stay with his family.
C.J. Milbrandt
#15. One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,
Anton Chekhov
#16. Perhaps this is one of the reasons Toby dislikes politics-that some of the people who car most about politics seem to have the least compassion for ordinary human beings.
Michelle Cooper
#17. If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice?
Mike Royko
#18. Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.
Sharon Salzberg
#20. Labels confine as much as they define. Remember that when you discuss people and preferences. Likes and dislikes speak of who you aren't, too.
Nick Shamhart
#21. Taste is an evolution and refinement of one's personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The editing consequently refines the choices and defines taste.
Norma Kamali
#22. The whole world dislikes kashays (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed) and yet, all the kashays of the world are done willfully. One doesn't like to be angry and yet he claims anger is necessary.
Dada Bhagwan
#23. Don't set pen to paper until you know your main characters inside out. Create files detailing their appearances, likes, dislikes, and personal background. You may not use all the information, but it is a crucial step in planning your story.
Jojo Moyes
#24. I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.
Meg Cabot
#25. The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.
Jonathan Rauch
#26. We are shaped by the people and events that came before us: their likes and dislikes, their choice of life partner, the vocations they chose, the events they took part in or caused to happen, and the legacies they left behind.
Marion Marchetto
#27. A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
Baden Powell De Aquino
#28. he dislikes "a boy who sleeps around.
Edith Hall
#29. To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.
Walter Sickert
#30. Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation ... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#31. It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
Malcolm Gladwell
#32. Your parents and society use that word duty as a means of molding you, shaping you according to their particular idiosyncrasies, their habits of thought, their likes and dislikes, hoping thereby to guarantee their own safety.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#33. I'm a believer in the Tea Party. I love the Tea Party. I love the people in the Tea Party. And, yes, I have a lot of different likes and maybe dislikes. And I don't know why.
Donald Trump
#34. My moral code is no more or less than my likes and dislikes.
Albert Camus
#35. Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
George Gordon Byron
#36. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister
anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.
Willa Cather
#37. I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#38. Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".
George Eliot
#39. You're not going to stay in business, the business of making movies very long because you need the resources in order to keep going. So you have to try and find a niche audience or some kind of audience that has the same likes, dislikes and aesthetic sensibilities that you have.
George Lucas
#40. To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.
Sallust
#41. But do not you see," answered Martin, "that he likewise dislikes everything he possesses? It was an observation of Plato, long since, that those are not the best stomachs that reject, without distinction, all sorts of food.
Voltaire
#42. Thirdly, the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his weapons. If a gentleman dislikes strategy he will not appreciate the benefit of weaponry, so must he not have a little taste for this?
Miyamoto Musashi
#43. Oh! It is dreadful...that one is almost always separated from those ones loves dearly and is encumbered with those one dislikes. -Queen Victoria
Cecil Woodham-Smith
#44. Here's why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They're not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.
Kristen Bell
#45. The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.
Simon Cowell
#46. To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
Frances Burney
#47. You must make some decisions Wall Street dislikes.
Nelson Peltz
#48. The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#49. The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.
H.L. Mencken
#50. A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.
Michael Hersch
#51. Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#52. "I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.
Nirmala Srivastava
#53. The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John Ruskin
#54. That is why she dislikes dreams: they impose an unacceptable equivalence among the various periods of the same life, a leveling contemporaneity of everything a person has ever experienced; they discredit the present by denying it its privileged status.
Milan Kundera
#55. I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
Tucker Carlson
#56. People who have strong likes and dislikes find life very difficult; they are as rigid as if they had only one bone.
Eknath Easwaran
#57. There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.
Rachel Hunter
#58. I know hardly anything about Galahad except that everybody dislikes him."
"Dislikes him?"
"They complain about him being inhuman."
Lancelot considered his cup.
"He is inhuman," he said at last. "But why should he be human? Are angels supposed to be human?
T.H. White
#59. In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.
Seungsahn
#60. She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Gertrude Stein
#61. My brother had very specific likes and dislikes. Basically, he liked anything until it harmed him and then he was wary.
Augusten Burroughs
#62. God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
Josephine Baker
#63. I looked from face to face, exaggerating flaws and reminding myself that these boys did not like me. The hope was that I might crush any surviving atom attraction, but as has been the case for my entire life, the more someone dislikes me the more attractive he becomes.
David Sedaris
#64. The solution is to develop a tracking system that captures each customer's likes and dislikes, as well as what each customer personally values and is hoping for when doing business with you.
Leonardo Inghilleri
#65. Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.
John Cage
#66. Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!
Marthe Bibesco
#67. Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.
Julianne Moore
#68. When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.
Nelson Mandela
#69. Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.
Frank Delaney
#70. I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
Gore Vidal
#71. Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
William James
#72. Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.
George Saintsbury
#73. This was I and not yet I, this was the wife of the President of the United States and she took precedence over me; my personal like and dislikes must be subordinated to the consideration of those things which were required of her
Grace Coolidge
#74. A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.
Helen McCloy
#75. The trouble with a lot of modern theology and a lot of modern thinking about God, is that we think of God a sort of being like ourselves, but bigger and better with likes and dislikes similar to our own.
Karen Armstrong
#76. The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.
Karl Popper
#77. Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas.
Huangbo Xiyun
#79. When we commit ourselves to paying attention in an open way, without falling prey to our own likes and dislikes, opinions and prejudices, projections and expectations, new possibilities open up and we have a chance to free ourselves from the straitjacket of unconsciousness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#80. Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.
Dorothy West
#81. The important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access to the dark night of the soul.
John Cage
#82. We're not handed situations based on our established likes and dislikes; we get what's available.
Meghan Daum
#83. Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.
Connor Franta
#84. I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.
Georges Bernanos
#85. Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
Elizabeth Bowen
#86. You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do.
Ash Gray
#87. If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.
Norman Rockwell
#88. I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#89. My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.
Matthew McConaughey
#90. Never explain yourself to anyone. The person who likes you will not need it. The person who dislikes it will not believe it.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#91. A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!
Richard Carson
#92. There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.
Cress Williams
#93. When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#94. It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce.
Andrew Jackson
#95. Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#96. someone did better than you because they didn't follow a rule and were not caught. And you do not want to be the person everyone else dislikes and thinks of as a cheat.
Daniel Thomas
#97. Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
Irwin Shaw
#98. He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent and evil magic; the magic of the think-machine gods, whose cult has one dogma - we cannot make a mistake.
Christopher Isherwood
#99. The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
Sallust
#100. ...the most crucial thing to keep in mind when you cook is the people who are going to eat your food - their tastes, their desires, their likes and dislikes, what will satisfy them, what will move them, what will make them want it again.
Kyung-ran Jo
