Avoided Quotes

320 quotes by 298 authors

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation. — Rajneesh
Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should… — Martin Luther
Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made it into an… — Richard Rohr
The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth… — Mark Twain
A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. — Samuel Hall Lord
I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided — Robert Tappan Morris
The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind...It… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate… — John R. Lott Jr.
Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled. Radiation… — Ralph Lapp
Zionism is a subject that all but a few are either too ignorant or too frightened to tackle and expose, but it must be made… — David Icke
We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has… — Marcello Malpighi
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided. — Rajneesh
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of… — Thomas Jefferson
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. — Winston Churchill
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools,… — Plutarch
Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the… — John Kenneth Galbraith
That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained… — George Mason
When we have many things within ourselves which are neither known nor accepted, then such things complicate our lives horrifyingly, and in fact provoke all… — Samael Aun Weor
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What… — Charles Dickens

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