(15 quotes found)
“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”
Arthur Helps
“Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple.”
Charles Lamb
“Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets.”
Cynthia Heimel
“The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.”
Dan Farmer
“I wish we didn't have to do this. This is the most distasteful part of the job. Nobody likes it. It's never fun.”
Mike Manley
“That was very distasteful to me, to retaliate so to speak like that (against the Vikings). I do believe the commissioner should look into these kind of clauses. We work so hard on trying to gain labor peace and a new collective bargaining agreement and then we as clubs allow agents to get cute and circumvent it. On the playing field there are rules and there are unwritten rules about how the game should be played in the spirit and the fairness of it all. It doesn't make sense to me that we had to lose such a fine football player this way. I was surprised by the ruling.”
Mike Holmgren
“Has Lil' Kim reached out to you since reports came out about the publicizing of your distaste for her in this book?”
Christopher Wallace
“On the one hand, I have nothing but distaste for any kind of religious fundamentalism and the societies spawned by that kind of fundamentalism.”
William Blum
“Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.”
William Hazlitt
“I find it particularly distasteful that Bristol is illegally profiting from a drug which only exists because taxpayers paid for its development in the first place. That's double-dipping at its worst,”
Jennifer Granholm
