#avoid

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#avoid #avoidance #evil #far #framed

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#anything #avoid #critical #economies #economy

Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#begun #enough #exploiting #faced #food

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#around #avoid #beyond #descend #get

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up. ↗

— Mike Hawkins

#catch #change #either #stay #unavoidable

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

#appearance #avoiding #deprived #enjoyments #evil

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#authority #avoidance #figure #habit #home

Normally I avoid movies where the aliens look like humans. It's cheesy. ↗

— Jon Heder

#cheesy #humans #i #like #look

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#away #being #between #difference #driver

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#good #government #necessary #unavoidable