I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and…

For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black…

— David Zindell

I think sex is really about the self, and really a self-reflection.

— Margaret Cho

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