For my part I have never avoided the influence of others…

I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human…

— Robert Polidori

I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah

— Rabia Basri

It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

— Stephen Charnock

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

— Kurt Cobain

“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