Avoiding Quotes - Page 4

• The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

  Paul Klee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.192, Univ of California Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.

  Oscar Arias

  Wisdom, Courage, Freedom

  10 Copy quote

• Me and my wife were interested in avoiding style, in eliminating voice, in getting away from the poetry logics, textures, and propulsions that we normally employ in our writing. But we arrived at even this organically and separately.

  Ben Doller

  Writing, Wife, Style

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Avoiding along some dimensions is easy. Create organization space and bring in some new talent so the innate cultural resistance is less material. Unfortunately, it's rarely that easy.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Organization, Space, Resistance

  Source: bobmorris.biz

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it to death. The moment that I heard that Meahri was leaving, I thought the world was ending because at that moment, I was full of regret. I was avoiding, not thinking, and pretending it wasn't what my heart was hoping for earlier. I'm sorry, because I've made Meahri cry so many times. I'll do well. I'll take care of her forever. Tae-sang, this is my first and last request of you. Just this once, forgive me.

  Yoon Sang-hyun

  Sorry, Regret, Heart

  4 Copy quote

• With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.

  Kingsley Amis

  Thinking, Fiction, Use

  5 Copy quote

• I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

  Ned Beauman

  Novel

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

  Bill Haley

  Kids, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  9 Copy quote

• There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, War, Mean

  George C. Marshall's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, nobelprize.org. December 11, 1953.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Two, Mind

  6 Copy quote

• The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Good Life, Opposites, Life Is

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Ambition, Greatness

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, chapter III: Of Mixed Princedoms, 1513.

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty.

  George Washington

  People, Feelings, Wish

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.301

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

  Jack London

  Dog, Men, Fire

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.49, Jack London

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration. I assume full political responsibility for what happened.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Responsibility, Goal, Political

  "Pinochet Takes 'Political Responsibility' for Actions of Chilean Dictatorship". Associated Press, www.washingtonpost.com. November 26, 2006.

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

  Margaret Atwood

  Broken Heart, Over You, Flats

  Margaret Atwood (1993). “Wilderness Tips”, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

  John Frusciante

  Talking, People, Frustrating

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

  Florence King

  Women, Home, Unique

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.91, Macmillan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Evil, Sometimes, Innocent

  "Rutherford B. Hayes, and His America". Book by Harry Barnard, p. 481, 1954.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world

  Ahmed Yassin

  Taken, Wish, Weakness

  53 Copy quote

• Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

  Michael Haneke

  Drama, Issues, Trying

  13 Copy quote

• I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Talking, People, Focus

  "The enigma of Day-Lewis". Interview with Peter Stanford, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2008.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

  Angela Merkel

  Two, Issues, People

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Graduation, Mistake, Memorable

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Friendship, Father, Tears

  "Ficciones".

  8 Copy quote

  Show source