#void

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#give #great #home #leaves #life

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#correction #eye #friend #kills #know

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#attention #avoid #because #draws #either

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches. ↗

— John Sununu

#better #cage #discipline #matches #politicians

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#been #composer #delicious #experience #falling

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#avoid #design #execution #material #most

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#avoid #different #different things #doing #had

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. ↗

— Andy Summers

#avoid #fusion #generic #i #jazz

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#avoid #calamity #ills #learn #see

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#audiences #avoided #could #country #each