Dislike Quotes

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike.

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

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

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.