The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor… — John Olver Copy Share Image
This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided. — Gary Bettman Copy Share Image
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The chaotic situation in Libya is definitely creating a threat. Libya now connects the jihadists in Africa with those in the Middle… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the… — Philip Bobbitt Copy Share Image
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. — William Safire Copy Share Image
We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise. — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided.… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated… — Mark Lynas 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
Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
