Staving Off Quotes

#1. I see no constitutional problems with the identification, staving off and defusing of outside threats.

Thomas De Maiziere

#2. The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

Chester W. Nimitz

#3. Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

Peter Greenaway

#4. Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.

Ramez Naam

#5. The short-term rage to be sated at the end of a barrel was too easy to act on. Staving off extinction required something else, something with more vision, something impossibly patient.

Hugh Howey

#6. As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own ... women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#7. Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.

Ali Liebegott

#8. As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

Lewis Thomas

#9. Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#10. Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives you only one chance.

Pat Conroy

#11. I heard a rumor that your mom and dad ran away from home.

Bobby Heenan

#12. Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.

Tyler Oakley

#13. The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting ...

Daniel Ellsberg

#14. Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness."
"May I ask for a specific example?"
"Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.

Judith McNaught

#15. Friendship was at the core of every relationship that mattered--allies, parent and child, lovers. On its foundation could be built all the other palaces of the heart.

Anne Perry

#16. Time renders all people and all things silent. And gods, it seems, are no exception.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#17. Physically it is impossible for a bee to fly, but because it believes it can then it can.

Stephen Richards

#18. Nothing here on earth is guaranteed," Melissa says, "except for one thing: Jesus is with us always. When I began to understand who He is, my doubts began to disappear. He is sufficient; He's enough.

Suzanne Eller

#19. Either way, the view stabbed its way into his chest, as if it were trying to finish him off before he even landed.

Sere Prince Halverson

#20. A fortress with an arsenal of weapons designed to stave off hungry,

Anonymous

#21. Listen deep down: most life happens on scales a million times smaller than ours.

Richard Powers

#22. My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Samuel Hoffenstein

#23. As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.

Lynne Truss