Staving 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. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

Louise Penny

#11. People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high end technological pieces, but mixed with local artisan stuff.

Sebastian Clovis

#12. The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Henry Fielding

#13. Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the Air Force.

Ethan Hawke

#14. With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.

Simon Kuznets

#15. highway after the boy.

Flannery O'Connor

#16. When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan.

Ron Hall

#17. He's the only living form of love I have left to wrap my arms around. Or

Pam Godwin

#18. Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

Robert Genn

#19. I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

Suzanne Collins

#20. Ignorance may be bliss, but at the end of the day it's still ignorance.

Katie Alender

#21. The good news is" he paused, carefully choosing his words, "I kissed you, and you're still here.

Lauren Kate