“So wise men avoided Usha. The death of her husband ensured that she became inauspicious. The white sari wrapped itself around her… — Paul Haston Copy Share Image
Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No… — Edward Teller 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
Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet.… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
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
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
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing. I feel vulnerable to the astonishing… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at… — Margaret Atwood 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
Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down… — Alexi Giannoulias 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
You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“I avoided situations that might otherwise trip or jangle my hypersensitive wiring, and I learned to pretend I was paying attention or… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs. — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . .… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an… — John Steinbeck 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
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
Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Id avoided the business as much as I could because of how little I was interested in being constantly associated with my… — Miles Robbins Copy Share Image
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that,… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
