#spared

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#basic #basic research #cancer #continues #family

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#consistent #country #efforts #honor #institutions

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#conceptions #go #happier #lot #love

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#decline #itself #law #own #seeds

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#business #end #extent #i #large

This was just one of many times God has spared me. ↗

— Jack Kelley

#just #just one #many #me #ny times

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. ↗

— Halle Berry

#beautiful #beautiful woman #beauty #been #being

I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#book #could #easily #effort #google

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#cold #despite #everything #few #guaranteed

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#because #books #busyness #how #many