Quotes of: Avert Keyword

Risk is the increased consequence of failure.

Trail Safe: Averting Threatening Human Behavior in the Outdoors

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get th...

Robert Olen Butler

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.

The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

David Chalmers

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Akira Kurosawa

No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

Charles Albert Gobat

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

Eskinder Nega

Whatever fate ordains, danger or hurt, or death predetermined, nothing can avert.

Theognis

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Michael Kinsley

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Elizabeth Holmes

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

Elihu Root

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

Karl A. Menninger

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

Matthew Scully

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Joseph Rotblat

Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.

Elliott Abrams

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

Bernhard von Bulow

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

Adolf Hitler

Frankly speaking, I'm not afraid of death. I don't endeavour to avert its advent. But I don't want to be a witness of it.

Alexander Zalan

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Garrison Keillor

If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

1984