#avoid

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do. ↗

— Richard Blumenthal

#called #could #did #i #realize

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#interesting #novel #out #seeks #sublime

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#cannot #cast #covet #doth #even

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence. ↗

— David Bohm

#avoid #call #i #keeping #results

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#blind #cause #dangerous #decisiveness #exists

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#books #characters #colorful #outside

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#avoid #canada #doing #draft #fair

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining! ↗

— Rupert Everett

#any #army #avoid #behave #being

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid. ↗

— Richard Branson

#avoid #lightning #rather #something #which

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#avoid #bipartisanship #causes #compromises #cooperate