Merely Avoiding Quotes

#1. Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

Portia De Rossi

#2. Shut up, me" Leo said out loud.
"What?" Piper asked.
"Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool.

Rick Riordan

#3. One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.

Harley King

#4. When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

David Gergen

#5. The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

Robert Trout

#6. You go on about reasons," Cora said. "Call things by other names as if it changes what they are. But that don't make them true.

Colson Whitehead

#7. I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.

Yasmin Paige

#8. I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

Francesca Annis

#9. Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

Daniel Goleman

#10. What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

George Bernard Shaw

#11. I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.

William Gibson

#12. A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Yet, if our simplification of the gospel message is our main way of communicating these ideas, our faith and the faith of those we lead will be shallow, thus only wading in simple ideas of a complex God.

Sanejo I. Leonard