Averts Quotes & Sayings

You're either living your dreams, or living your fears. — Les Brown

I had no intention of anyone ever finding out what I had done. — Jared Fogle

True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible? — Daniel Suarez

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage. — Samuel Johnson

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it. — Jean De La Bruyere

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war. — Mao Zedong

Thy hand bestows blessings: Thy power averts evil. I — Anonymous

We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient. — Lana Wachowski

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes. — George Bernard Shaw

Everybody loves music and it's fun - you feel like you're not working out. It makes the time go by quick and you're having fun and, especially if you take a class, there's the energy of other people and you're laughing. — Julianne Hough

I'm very aware of my spending, but I'm not very aware of my income. There are certain times when I speak to my accountant, or something will pop up, and I'll be like 'oh' but it's not really a frontrunner in my head. — Gemma Ward

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us. — Robert Fitzgerald

a little modesty averts disgrace — Bemy Wells

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life ... — Alexis De Tocqueville

What separates history from myth is that history takes in the whole picture, whereas myth averts our eyes from the truth when it turns men into heroes and gods. — Nancy Isenberg

Poets to Come
POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;
But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
Arouse! Arouse
for you must justify me
you must answer.
I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
I but advance a moment, only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
I am a man who, sauntering along, without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you, and then averts his face,
Leaving it to you to prove and define it,
Expecting the main things from you. — Walt Whitman

Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune. — Johanna Spyri