#avoid

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink. ↗

— Timothy West

#cross #different #different kinds #difficult #got

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. ↗

— Richard Whately

#avoid #corrupted #danger #exchange #follow

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. ↗

— George C. Williams

#avoid #evolving #extinction #human #most

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#altogether #avoid #finds #him #how

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try. ↗

— Chill Wills

#arresting #avoid #best #every #every man

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build. ↗

— James Wolcott

#aware #big #brain #build #cite

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. ↗

— William Wycherley

#call #honor #men #only #persons

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#avoid #big #book #cannot #consciousness

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#expansion #extension #holidays #key #list