If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick. — Elizabeth Holmes Copy Share Image
Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone. — Hafez Copy Share Image
I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are… — Plato Copy Share Image
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
You can always avert throwing yourself in front of an oncoming train. There is something that just pulls you away - and… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism,… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ.… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany. — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Since love and hate can be fierce partners in crime, it is highly recommended to trace any early indicia of the fault… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
