The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Me being from a Celtic culture that tends to emphasize directness, conflict, openness has a big effect on my living in Japan,… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
“It’s like avoidance behavior in therapy—wanting to share the gossip but not wanting to deal with the real, more painful issues. Of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the… — Antonio R. Damasio Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“When you decisively and interactively put yourself into an adrenaline arena, you will experientially discover your outcome. (...from "The Book of Common… — Wyatt Pringle Jr Copy Share Image
Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud… — Sharon Weil Copy Share Image
In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics--the ease with which we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need for our civ ilisation; but no such system has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It… — Leslie Groves Copy Share Image
Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“My old therapist warned me that avoidance is a dysfunctional way to interact with people you care about, but now I’m starting… — Jenn Bennett Copy Share Image
Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
“She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“RIVETING TORPOR It is remarkable how far I am prepared to go In order to avoid doing the one thing that might… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I didn't avoid my problems. I just didn't feel as though I had to focus on them every minute of every day.… — Mara Purnhagen Copy Share Image
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image