Avoiding Quotes

444 quotes by 369 authors

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you. — Fred Thompson
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the… — Mariella Frostrup
Be sure to â€˜noticeâ€™ ideas when you have them. Stop. Take the time to consider them seriously. And if your gut tells you they're compelling,… — Tim Westergren
A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear. — Chen Shui-bian
In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to… — Louis P. Benezet
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether. — Jorge Luis Borges
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We… — Jack Kornfield
Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You're a group of incredibly, well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You're barely… — Aaron Sorkin
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw… — Andrew Mellon
Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing — Soichiro Honda
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do… — Ahmed Yassin
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action. — Audre Lorde
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards… — Florence King
Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when… — Philip Neri
You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
De-Christianizing America has been high on the progressive agenda, and, thanks to the government (especially the federal courts), it has been a great success. Nor… — Joseph Sobran
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. — Edward Tufte
I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the… — Alberto Gonzales

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