Staying Avoided Quotes & Sayings

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly on! The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. — Joanna Baillie

the Vettore connection. — Michael D. O'Brien

Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal. — A.C. Grayling

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. — John Ralston Saul

I didn't want to feel like I was the only person in the world who hated people. — Maggie Stiefvater

It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you. — April Genevieve Tucholke

She wasn't sure how long she spent in the warm deep water, or if indeed any time really had passed, or if the millions of years went past in a second, but she felt movement again, and a sense of rising. More memories poured into her mind. There's always been someone watching the borders. They didn't decide to. It was decided for them. Someone has to care. Sometimes they have to fight. Someone has to speak for that which has no voice ... — Terry Pratchett

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. — Arthur Helps

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. — Robert Anton Wilson

Gavin scratched his head, idly wondering what his father would tell him right about then. Probably steal the slave and run. Father's solution was always to steal and run. But he had a job to finish.
"All right," he said finally, "here's what we'll do. We'll pretend this night didn't happen."
That earned another sarcastic look. — Suzanna J. Linton

The best way to contain China and make it the peaceful rise of China is for us to have an enormously robust navy that is the greatest navy in the world, that can patrol two oceans, that can fight two or three wars, and China will not challenge us because the Chinese are practical. — Rudy Giuliani

The morning of the game, I'd woken up in my rez house so my dad could drive me the twenty-two miles to Reardan, so I could get on the team bus for the ride back to the reservation.
Crazy. — Sherman Alexie

Some people are just crazy about something while others are lucky enough to get that. — M.H. Rakib