Averted Quotes

25 quotes by 25 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned. — Michael Kinsley
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
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
... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends. — Clifford Whittingham Beers
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
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. — Catullus
If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted. — Elizabeth Warren
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
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
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
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: