I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have… — Greta Scacchi Copy Share Image
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into… — George Washington 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
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war… — Jon Stewart 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
At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever… — Jennifer Carpenter 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
There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. — Beck Copy Share Image
The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly,… — Claire Weekes Copy Share Image
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided.… — Gordon Moore Copy Share Image
New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated,… — Mary C. Jones Copy Share Image
