To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided. — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided. — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour [in my children]: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a… — John Elkann Copy Share Image
Yeah I've avoided girls before, but for a reason. If I like a girl, there's a chance I don't know what she's… — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image
We don't know yet but so far the three candidates that have dealt with [Donald] Trump most adeptly are [Ted] Cruz, [Chris]… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing. If you're walking down the… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960.… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and… — Irwin Stone Copy Share Image
Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
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![“But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d33/thomas-jefferson-43_aloof_but-you-may-ask-if-the-two-departments-i_1638614.jpg)
