Averted Quotes
25 quotes by 25 authors
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I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still…
— Cameron Diaz
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The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion…
— Adolf Hitler
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Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children - or even no…
— Jonathon Porritt
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace,…
— Elihu Root
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We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need…
— Noah Feldman
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My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for errors and dangers…
— Mary Slessor
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Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith…
— Robert Ley
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Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten…
— Charles Dickens
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So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
— Michael Kinsley
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R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that…
— John Thomas Sladek
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Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not…
— George Eliot
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... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.
— Clifford Whittingham Beers
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We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a…
— Jay Carney
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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
— Catullus
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If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.
— Elizabeth Warren
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At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable…
— Victor Hugo
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You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this,…
— Lorrie Moore
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Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest…
— Rafael Sabatini
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Clothes were scattered across the floor in piles, a duffel bag open on the floor as if it had exploded. Isabelle's bright silver-gold whip hung…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Averted Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 25 Averted Quotes as follows: