Averts Quotes

#1. True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. What separates history from myth is that history takes in the whole picture, whereas myth averts our eyes from the truth when it turns men into heroes and gods.

Nancy Isenberg

#3. Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune.

Johanna Spyri

#4. Thy hand bestows blessings: Thy power averts evil. I

Anonymous

#5. It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life ...

Alexis De Tocqueville

#6. As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

Mao Zedong

#7. Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.

Samuel Johnson

#8. Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. a little modesty averts disgrace

Bemy Wells

#10. No man of God need be astonished at slander, as though some strange thing had happened unto him, for the best servants of God have been subject to that trial.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. Losing a chunk of your memory is a tricky thing, a deep-sea quake triggering shifts and upheavals too far distant from the epicenter to be easily predictable.

Tana French

#12. Unless you had a popular video on YouTube
or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. Love flows from me into him, and his blue eyes crinkle, huge and happy. Such a smiley baby. The midwife says it can't be a real smile, not yet, just some passing gas or a random quiver of his lip, but I know she's wrong.

J.P. Delaney

#14. President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

Rick Perry

#15. Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.

Thomas Sowell

#16. Senior members of the security establishment have not been entirely cooperative - let's put it that way - with the operations and still maintain contacts with FDLR leadership.

Jason Stearns

#17. There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.

Jay Leno

#18. They wonder what is wrong with our country, but isn't it fairly obvious that if children are being treated like animals instead of rational beings, as adults they'll respond like monkeys?

Wen Spencer