Dislike Quotes - Page 5

• You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Thinking, Emancipation Proclamation

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some value on it, but the very idea of equality is strange and offensive to them. They do not dislike to have many people above them as long as they have some below them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Class, Ideas, Long

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• I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Christian, Prayer, Philosophy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.6

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• Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Success, Business

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• I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Long, Common

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• 'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces

  Kate Burridge

  Grace, Intellectual, Important

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• When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Political, Demand, Doe

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• 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

  Children, Tired, Likes And Dislikes

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything - that I didn't enjoy. I didn't like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren't going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn't dislike anything.

  Fred Astaire

  Get Better, Vaudeville, Remember

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody has friends they dislike; people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious, more circumspect.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Cautious, Chosen

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• There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.

  Brett Favre

  People, Matter, Like You

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• The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

  Chico Hamilton

  Music, Band, Jazz

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• I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Hate, Book

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• Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.

  Catiline

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

  "Sallust: The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha". Book by Sallust, translated by J. C. Rolfe, Book XX, part 4, 2013.

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• Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

  Horace

  Depressing, Thinking, People

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• 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

  War, Appreciate, Gentleman

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.10, Bottom of the Hill

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• I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

  Marvin Minsky

  Humorous, Thinking, People

  "AI Techniques for Game Programming". Book by Mat Buckland, 2002.

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• If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Christian, Jesus, Justice

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• You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Slavery, Abstract, Knows

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.80, Penguin

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• People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Sex, Jealous, Player

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• The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

  Randolph Bourne

  Religious, Feelings, Ironic

  Randolph Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.136, Univ of California Press

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• On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but off camera, it's just one big happy family. We hang out off the show and we play cards together and go have dinner together.

  Emilio Rivera

  Hate, Play, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

  Roy Jenkins

  Inheritance, Heirs, Distrust

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• As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

  Hans Rosling

  Microsoft Word, Use, Goldfish

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• I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

  Orson Welles

  Hate, Men, Kind

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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