How can you avert these disasters?

This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.…

— Terence McKenna

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

— Winston Churchill

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

— Hafez

Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know what I…

— Paul Krugman

We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.

— Dennis Kucinich

Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety…

— Camille

We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in terms of…

— Frank Zappa

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

— Alvin Toffler

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

— Jeremy Rifkin

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or…

— Isaac Newton

He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter its perils,…

— John Stevens Cabot Abbott

What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government…

— George Washington

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods…

— Rebecca West

Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional…

— Eleanor Roosevelt