Averting Quotes

#1. Nationalization of the economy will not constitute a solution to society's difficulties; it will merely be a reflexive means of averting immediate meltdown.

Richard Heinberg

#2. Thinking about averting plane crashes in 1935, or stopping infections of central lines in 2003, or rescuing drowning victims today, I realized that the key problem in each instance was essentially a simple one, despite the number of contributing factors.

Atul Gawande

#3. My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth.

J.M. Coetzee

#4. Oh, for crap's sake, I can barely look at it," Aphrodite said, turning her head from the archway and averting her eyes. "And I usually love sparkly things.

P.C. Cast

#5. You're crying?"
"I'm a woman of the desert," she said, averting her face. "But above all, I'm a woman.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

Charles Lamb

#7. God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path.

Jim George

#8. Holy Goshness! She gasped mentally, quickly averting her eyes.

For Being such a private and antisocial guy in normal everyday life, zonked out Harley sure didn't have a problem with wandering around in the buff.

Amy Cook

#9. I am already used to taking on the same sins. For a Fairy Tail Mage, the true sin is averting one's eyes ... and no longer being able to believe in anyone!

Hiro Mashima

#10. Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

Ephrem The Syrian

#11. Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded elections with billions of oily petrodollars from carbon tycoons.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#12. Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.

James Purefoy

#13. Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

Matthew Scully

#14. Scholastics called the "irascible" (averting) and "concupiscible" (attracting) emotions.

Peter Kreeft

#15. My anxieties have anxieties.

Charles M. Schulz

#16. Calm as still water. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine.

George R R Martin

#17. It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.

Debbie Ford

#18. I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#19. Ooh, big day in town for our park warden," I said. "They're even making you wear the uniform.
Hayley's mom will be happy. She thinks you look hot in it."
Dad turned as red as his hair.
Mom's laugh floated out from her studio. "Maya Delaney. Leave your father alone.

Kelley Armstrong

#20. Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#21. I'm happy and I'm focused on my work ... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Century Fox and to keep opening doors for Mexicans and Latins in the United States.

Eiza Gonzalez

#22. It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

Bill Hader

#23. When you love, age, height and weight are just .numbers I agree and filling that the heart, has its own way ... count people and things!

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#24. People like to have something to turn down, though. They want to be able to say no to some things, because it makes their yes more meaningful. (pg. 25)

Deb Caletti

#25. It is true that "atheism" is a negative word, but so is "nonfiction." They are double negatives. Both words tell you that what you are getting is real, not pretend. Those of

Dan Barker

#26. I saw the first 'House Party' - not the other 10. I love pop culture references. If you saw 'Moneyball', watch it again, looking for all the Clash posters.

Brian Shactman

#27. In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Jerry Saltz

#28. Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Roy Blount Jr.