Avoided Quote by Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element,…

— Greta Scacchi

Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army,…

— George Washington

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

— William Wycherley

Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

— Khaled Hosseini

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think…

— Chuck Noll

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all…

— Enoch Powell

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

— James Ellroy

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember…

— Epictetus

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it…

— Clive James

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is…

— Alfred P. Sloan