Avoidable Suffering Quotes

#1. If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.

Peter Singer

#2. The Dark calls out to its own and evil recognises its twin, malevolence.

Fox Brison

#3. Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

Gabrielle Zevin

#4. Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.

Penn Jillette

#5. I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

Jerry Saltz

#6. My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to repair or control.

Jon Katz

#7. But Arafat's devotion was to the Palestinian cause and not to the Palestinian people. [...] As a result, Arafat delayed the conflict's solution, leaving a legacy of avoidable disaster and unnecessary suffering.

Barry Rubin

#8. Do not blame other people for being themselves, you will only be frustrated by it.

Garth Stein

#9. Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

Pankaj Mishra

#10. In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#11. Con?"
He blew out a breath. "You exhaust me."
"No, I don't."
I caught his smile before he grew serious again. "I'll see what I can do.

Anne Zoelle

#12. I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

Gary Clark Jr.

#13. I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

Trent Parke

#14. Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.

Abdallah II

#15. That was it. That was his pickup line. You comin' or what?

Kristen Ashley

#16. The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#17. I look like a turkey with leukemia.

Birdman

#18. Give me needy emotional whining bullshit.
Flash.
Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle.
Christ.

Chuck Palahniuk