I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

Ezra Cornell

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

To most people, jazz-fusion means this dreadful synthetic jazz-rock thing, this jazz-Muzak, which I detest. They also think of jazz as a specific form of music, while to me it's just the opposite.

Allan Holdsworth

Music While Which

Wandering around the mall and giggling at magazines doesn't interest me. I've never enjoyed shopping. I detest shoes.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Wandering Wander UN

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

Barry Ritholtz

Without Wit UN

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Ben Carson

Politics You Would

The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.

Bill Simmons

Yankees Ya Without

Show me one single patriot who has ever been in Barack Obama's life in any position of influence. You can't do it... Barack Obama detests this nation as founded. He has zero respect for the founding documents.

Brad Thor

Respect Men Life

Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good - only the execution often left something to be desired.

Bret Stephens

Good You Worse

I adore my houses - they're my refuge - but I detest more and more Saint-Tropez where it's impossible to live: invaded by tourists, social evenings, all of which I avoid and which terrorises me.

Brigitte Bardot

Which Where Void

I loathe and detest heavy metal.

Butch Trucks

Test T Oath

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Carroll O'Connor

Art Vulnerable View

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Charles Bukowski

Time Pet Alone

I am beginning to loathe & detest all that Hollywood represents.

Charles R. Jackson

Wood Woo Test

Alternatives to gold and currency and to make a big speculative vehicle - I never considered for one second having anything to do with it. I detested it the minute it had been raised.

Charlie Munger

Wit Vehicle Thing

One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it's molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting. And I really, really hate incredibly long shoes, where the last is very pointy, almost like Aladdin.

Christian Louboutin

Where Very Us

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

Christine Lahti

Up Test Ten

I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.

Craig Venter

Up Tin Thor

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Curt Flood

Great You UN

I really detest brunch. I think it's a waste of a good day. Detest is a little too severe, but I would say I'm not a brunch person.

Cynthia Rowley

Good Would Waste

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

Dennis Miller

Where Very UN

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Desiderius Erasmus

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

E. L. Doctorow

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

E. W. Howe

As for my looks, if I didn't look the way I do, I would probably be one of those many faces doing a romcom, which I detest. The way I look has somewhere defined the characters I played. My weakness has become my strength.

Emraan Hashmi

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Erica Jong

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.

Eugene Ionesco

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

Ezra Cornell

I detest people who lie. I can't stand it.

Farrah Abraham

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

Felix Dennis

I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

Gary Kemp

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

George Washington

I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

Gerry Rafferty

I don't detest Arsenal because of the way Wenger treated me.

Gervinho

I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil.

Glenn Gould

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

H. L. Mencken

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

Harold Pinter

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

Harry Browne

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

Helen Clark

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities' inhabitants with paranoid suspicion.

Hisham Matar

Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

Irvine Welsh

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

Italo Calvino

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

J. K. Rowling

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.

Jakaya Kikwete

If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

Jason Priestley

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Jean Piaget

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

Jenny Holzer