We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.
He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.
[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. . . If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.
Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.
I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.
The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.
Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really bad about the $5 you've lost. You're cursing yourself. You're going through it again and again. If, on the other hand, you find $5, you go - hey, great, five bucks. And you've forgotten about it really quickly.
Value investing is risk aversion.
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are going to be able to avoid what you don't want. That is not yoga. That is desire and aversion.
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
