#void

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#imagination #leave #let us #men #pretty

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#avoided #because #bewildered #comedies #feeling

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#cannot #confident #defeat #deprived #fear

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. ↗

— Quintilian

#better #born #destruction #dumb #employ

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#break #first #fool #glass #looking

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#assigned #avoid #been #categories #could

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#enjoy #fight #fighting #had #how

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#church #conclusion #contribution #elements #hostile

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#hit #hitting #honorably #never #possible

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ↗

— Mae West

#generally #i #resist #temptation #unless