Dislike Quotes - Page 24

• The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Men

  1931 Speech,18 Mar. Rudyard Kipling, Baldwin's cousin, is alleged to be the original author of this famous phrase. Harold Macmillan claimed that the Duke of Devonshire (his father-in-law) responded 'Good God, that's done it, he's lost us the tarts.'

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• Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Suffering, Battle

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Often Is, Likes And Dislikes

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Kappa Delta Pi

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• I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.112

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• We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.

  Henry Beston

  Night, Light, Sea

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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• A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

  Karl Deutsch

  Errors, Groups, Ancestry

  Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1969). “Nationalism and its alternatives”

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• I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

  Karen Black

  People, Trying, Want

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• I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Party, Sacrifice, Careers

  Edward Dmytryk (1978). “It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living”, Crown

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• I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.

  Roger Federer

  Awkward, Red, Wimbledon

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• There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.

  Thomas Frank

  Party, President, Financial

  "Conservatives and Their Pity Parties" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2009.

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• The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration.

  Ashton Eaton

  Frustration, Challenges, Maximum

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• I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Artist, Thinking, Musician

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• The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.

  Zhuangzi

  People, Division, Want

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• The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lying, Heart, Likes And Dislikes

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.1070, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

  Jane Campion

  Feminist, Feminism, Purpose

  "New Again: Jane Campion". Interview with Katherine Dieckmann, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone.

  Dante Hall

  Competition, Challenges, Welcome

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• I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.

  T. D. Jakes

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• The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.

  Sengcan

  Peace, Perfect, Way

  "Xinxin Ming". Poem by Sengcan,

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• American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Play, United States, Roles

  Michael Mandelbaum (2010). “The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era”, p.53, PublicAffairs

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• I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Reading, Light, Groups

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• There's so many people that dislike you all the time, so when somebody loves anything that you do, you go 'Yes! Finally!' Even if it means the dyn-o-mite thing.

  Jimmie Walker

  Mean, People, Like You

  "Jimmie Walker never watched a single episode of 'Good Times'" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. June 26, 2012.

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• There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

  Robert Powell

  Simple, Alive, Reason

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• Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

  Tanith Lee

  Casting, Vote, Genre

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• Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Pirate, Would Be

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.51, Routledge

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• I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.

  Boris Nemtsov

  War, Believe, Ukraine

  "Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield", www.cnn.com. March 2, 2015.

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