Quotes on Avoided

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.