Repelled Quotes

You certainly hear a lot more roars when the golf course is soft and the greens are holding and you can hit it in there close. That's not the case today. It's just picked up enough speed where it feels like the ball is kind of being repelled instead of being accepted. - Tiger Woods

What interests me... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born because they are still tied by an umbilical cord. Relationships between women - daughters, mothers, friends - are one of my strong interests. - Judith Rossner

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. - Edward Dahlberg

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

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

The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed). - Margherita Amodeo

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact. - Sabastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian. - Robert Towne