Repelling Quotes (page 3)

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• she
• mind
• imagination

IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her consious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terrible nightmares. Madeleine L'Engle

• mother
• daughter
• mother daughter

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways. Jodi Picoult

• manly
• work
• life

At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life's work. Eric Clapton

• repelled
• herring
• hers

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. Ivan Turgenev

• small
• old
• uprightness

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled. Agatha Christie

• nature
• powerful
• power

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices. Joyce Carol Oates

• effort
• drawing
• library

Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs Dent and Mrs Eshton to draw her into conversation, had first murmured over some sentimental tunes and airs on the piano, and then, having fetched a novel from the library, had flung herself in haughty listlessness on a sofa and prepared to beguile, by the spell of fiction, the tedious hours of absence. Charlotte Bronte

• money
• simple
• mind

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. John Kenneth Galbraith

• work
• perfect
• repelled

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions. Josh Duhamel

• hope
• evening
• charming

I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming. Michelle Hunziker

• rock
• climbing
• buildings

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building. Kate Hudson

• love
• humanity
• mind

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. Nathaniel Parker Willis

• culture
• end
• celebration

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. Anderson Cooper

• women
• reality
• rock

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them. Camille Paglia

• illness
• makes
• listen

A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill. Johnny Olson