We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did not find the odor entirely repellent.
Quotes about repellent (13 Quotes)
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.
The things you put on your skin to soften it and make you beautiful can also be very strong attractants, ... Many of the ingredients in cosmetics will attract mosquitoes. And while a repellent may offset that, most times the cosmetics and creams last longer than the repellents.
Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.
Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, hatred, all as plain to him as her beauty with nothing plainer to him than her hatred of him. He saw her sometimes haughty and repellent at his side, and some times down among his horse's feet, fallen and in the dust. But he always saw her as she was, without disguise, and watched her on the dangerous way that she was going.
If you are careful about what you put in your mouth, and if you are careful about using mosquito repellent, you can dramatically reduce the risk of the most common illnesses.
We have a real serious problem facing us in America. It's nothing to get real worried about, just be careful. If you are out, make sure you put some mosquito repellent on,
Mosquitoes are most prevalent in the late afternoon, so if you are going out during this time try to wear long sleeves and pants as well as mosquito repellent,
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
People who think they attract mosquitoes are the ones at largest risk of mosquito-borne disease. They'll have a hundred mosquitoes feed on them when a normally repellent person might have five. It's that kind of ratio.
What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent.
Maybe something we should add to the list of items to pack for an emergency with the flashlight, water and food should be insect repellent,
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.