I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.
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I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.
But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.
When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.
I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die.
I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
I hate diversity workshops. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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