(23 quotes found)
“The thing that worked best was the thing I hated the most, keeping a diary. I absolutely loathed it. I didn't want to report that I ate a donut, so I didn't eat the donut. It was a way to make me skip things I should have skipped anyway.”
Jerry Rhodes
“In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.”
Frederick Douglass
“In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Most immigration opponents are loath to admit it, at least publicly, but they are worried that the huge influx of Hispanics will somehow change America for the worse. But those fears are unfounded. Some may talk about the browning of America, but immigrants are a net positive.”
Linda Chavez
“I executed a coup ... and it would be loath of me to leave the process half-done in terms of the processes of law.”
George Speight
“He ne'er considered it, as loath To look a gift-horse in the mouth”
Samuel Butler
“I'd be very loath to be critical of what Judith did,”
Lucy Dalglish
“I would be loath to break with the tradition of using the same attorney as the town.”
Michael Dupree
“This puts France in a very difficult position. While they would be loath to get involved in another civil war like in [Ivory Coast], the fact they have been open in their support for Deby in the east indicates how much they hate the idea of losing Chad to what is from a French geopolitical standpoint a Sudanese rebel movement.”
Christopher Melville
“I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief”
Euripides