Disgusting Quotes - Page 23

• It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Privilege

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• You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.

  Kenji Mizoguchi

  People, Sensual, Odor

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• The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions, and most others, are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.

  Polly Toynbee

  Islam, Body, Christianity

  "Behind the burka" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2001.

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• Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

  Polly Toynbee

  Islam, Body, Christianity

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• The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows a disgust for a certain form of self-preservation. It is a sensitive shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowledge.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Country, Reality, Thinking

  "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.

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• I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Running, Fall, Moon

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• What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Baby, Men, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3594, Manonmani Publishers

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• Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my silly old collar-bone's bust.

  John Betjeman

  Horse, Silly, Naughty

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• The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.

  Walter Ciszek

  Education, Children, Simple

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• Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

  Steven Morrissey

  Grandmother, Thinking, Meat

  "Auction of signed copy of Morrissey's Autobiography raises £8,000 for Peta", www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2013.

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• At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Hope, Ideas, Astonishment

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• I'm not running for office. I don't have to be politically correct. I don't have to be a nice person. Like I watch some of these weak-kneed politicians, it's disgusting. I don't have to be that way.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Running, Business

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. December 28, 2006.

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• In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth.

  Steve Carell

  Eight, Smell, Space

  "Steve Carell Interview - EVAN ALMIGHTY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 19, 2007.

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• She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good.

  A. S. Byatt

  Children, Nice, Son

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• I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

  Joe Pesci

  Jobs, Wall, Work

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• Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

  P. T. Barnum

  Silly, Absurd, Witchcraft

  P.T. BARNUM (1866). “THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD”, p.307

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• Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Running, Poison, Looks

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

  James Buchan

  Cutting, Pages, Firsts

  "Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2009.

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• Placing "amicable" and "separation" together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Sight, Agony, Together

  "Should I stay friends with my ex?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2013.

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• In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.

  John O'Hara

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  John O'Hara (1934). “Appointment in Samarra”

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• Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.

  Mike Royko

  America, Space, Watches

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2366, Agate Digital

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• Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.

  Laurie Notaro

  Dad, Laughter, Book

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• Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have sex. Little of this is what we want them to do, of course. We ask them to sit, stay, smell peasant, practice abstinence, and be accommodating.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Sex, Sleep

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• Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

  Ivan Brunetti

  Art, Worry, Doe

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• We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Animal, Natural

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