“It is not betrayal of feeling, but avoidance of duty, that constitutes weakness.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)” — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants… — Adam Berlin Copy Share Image
“I’m like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right… — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.” — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
“If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My suspicion is that this is an unavoidable human dilemma, that people will always want to avoid pain, to avoid those who… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“Believe truth! Shun error!-these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently… — William James Copy Share Image
Our international banking system allows banks to accept funds gained from tax evasion and other crimes and thereby facilitates and encourages embezzlement… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me. I missed them all, through deliberate negligence, Having waited for the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“...TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and… — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
“If you experience feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem, your poor self-image may keep you from exploring your social self and getting… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The problem is that every study I'm aware of, which is probably not that many, has indicated that a dollar spent in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“Self-questioning and self-identification go hand in hand. It is surprising how little life changes. Most of the days that we spend working,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being attached to money. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“I don't want to say hello, nor do I want him to know that I've seen him and failed to say hello.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. — Jill Robinson Copy Share Image
“People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.” — Silvia Hartmann Copy Share Image
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