#void

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#being #bore #everyone #oneself #someone

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#avoided #because #created #different #different roles

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#adversaries #along #attacks #avoid #earth

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar. ↗

— Xun Zi

#aware #bravery #death #dog #drink

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs. ↗

— Alton Brown

#bill #costs #desperately #enough #enough people

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. ↗

— Harry Browne

#attract #avoid #because #earn #elements

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#bath #being #clean #day #menace

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. ↗

— George Burns

#avoiding #i #important #key #longevity

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#career #classes #education #foundation #gave

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#heal #insofar #interesting #like #plague