#avoid

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#clings #his #internationalism #own #poet

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#bringing #into #joy #pain #pieces

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#avoid #being #disposal #done #everything

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#attempt #avoided #basically #been #crisis

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#avoid #back #could #free #hold

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity. ↗

— Steven T. Katz

#avoided #been #broken #holocaust #impunity

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#avoid #brains #doing #i #ideas

Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know. ↗

— Kerry King

#anything #avoid #bag #bags #cabin

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#additional #avoid #effort #every #fighting

I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided. ↗

— Michael Vick

#avoided #because #been #could #exposed