Distasteful Quotes

Distasteful Quote of the day

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

I've seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.