Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences? — Eugene Mirman 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
Fast movement during exercise does not produce fast muscles, or strong muscles, or large muscles, it produces only one thing, a thing… — Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
By the age of fifteen, I had convinced myself that nobody could give a reasonable explanation of what he meant by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force. — Vladimir Yakunin Copy Share Image
The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my… — Esther Smith 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
Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery,… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me,… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided. — Charles Curtis Copy Share Image
Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image