Avoided Quotes - Page 17

• The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Winning, Risk, Tragedy

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

  Aristotle

  Taken, Unjust, Stones

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• If the distinction provided by Jesus' words: Give unto god, what is god's, and unto Caesar what is Caesar's! is carried through, then other necessary intrusions by the national state into the domain of church creeds can be completely avoided.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Jesus, Giving, Church

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 609, 1930.

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• Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

  Aristotle

  Honesty, Men, Excellence

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• When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.

  Maeve Binchy

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

  Richard Holbrooke

  War, World, Negotiation

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• I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

  Issey Miyake

  Bombs, Want, Designer

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• When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.

  Melinda Gates

  Pregnancy, Voice, Impact

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.

  Steve Erickson

  Thinking, Wind, Creative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Struggle, Goal

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.

  Thomas Pogge

  Average, People, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Government, History, Historical

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• Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Destiny, World, Mystery

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

  Suze Orman

  Cost, Students, Loan

  "Suze Orman Warns Against Private Student Loans, Yet Teaches at University of Phoenix" by David Halperin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2014.

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• Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Goal, Target

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2006.

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• I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Beauty, Men, Competition

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

  Chief Joseph

  War, Want, Ought

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• Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Thinking, President

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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Lure

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• [Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

  John Milton

  Italian, Numbers, Long

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• Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

  Epictetus

  Death, Evil, Use

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.77

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• In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

  Marya Mannes

  Passion, Long, Dying

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• I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.

  Roseanne Barr

  Reality, Kind, Deals

  "A candid Q&A (is there any other kind?) with Roseanne". Q&A with Craig Wilson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 3, 2011.

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• The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Snakes, Circles, Overcoming

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.

  Sara Coleridge

  Would Be, Waste, Arguing

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.136

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