Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it…

— Clive James

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember…

— Epictetus

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

— James Ellroy

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all…

— Enoch Powell

“Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided”

— Miles Anthony Smith

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think…

— Chuck Noll

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama…

— Anonymous

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

— Khaled Hosseini

“war is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

— William Wycherley

Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army,…

— George Washington

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element,…

— Greta Scacchi