Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Harvey

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

Sharon Salzberg

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

Tristram Stuart

In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.

Alan Greenspan

This schedule change avoids a meeting that spans the terms of two chairmen,

Jonathan Steinmetz

We have long maintained that the parties are very likely to come up with a deal that avoids a long, debilitating strike at Delphi, which could lead to a Chapter 11 filing by GM.

Mike Ruddock

I have explained my position and given my personal views in my own words, which I hope has been useful to the board and avoids further unnecessary speculation or any false impressions, which could undermine my personal position or that of the board.

Steven Weinberg

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Johnny Ramos

I always tell the players that is the hardest bone in their head so that avoids the injury issue. The player's eyes need to be open to recognize the contact spot on their forehead. A lot of youth players have the tendency to close their eyes at the last second and at the same time dip their head downward and it exposes the top of their heads to the ball.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Jim Smith

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.

Michael Defensor

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Steve Perkins

We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them.

Rolly Woolsey

We started the deal and here they are 30-years later in the Super Bowl.

Craig Brown

There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.

Al Sharpton

How do you make things fair?

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Frank Poirot

We struck a fair balance. We feel we've been fair with all our customers.

Gunter Grass

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Liz Boyd

We have seen an increase in prices and inflation. It is about time we give people a fair wage for a fair day's work.

Mark Connor

We want him to keep starting. If he goes 80 pitches and five or six innings, it's fair to say he's now an option for us.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Alan Lamb

We're snowbirds. This is a lot better fair than we have back in Michigan.

Caitlin Moran

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

Louis C. K.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Dear Abbey

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Annie Dillard

Put yourself out of your misery.

Dalai Lama

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Dodie Smith

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Beryl Bainbridge

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

Karen Simmons

We don't have any children, so it was a pretty traumatic thing for us.

Trevor Moore

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

Pam Saylor

But they said he was going to be okay. At the same time, we were told he was going to the trauma unit.

Joe Haldeman

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

Bob Carr

I think it would be so traumatic ... they would never do it again,

James Frey

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

Eve Ensler

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.