The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?
Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.
Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.
In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Consider this on your birthday You've got life's struggle beaten For 60 years you've ate And avoided being eaten
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.
Everyone knew fear. It was the reaction that made the difference. Some people hated fear and avoided the experience. Some people endured it as a necessity. And some people became addicted to the rush.
Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimisitc about the potential for technology to make the world a better place. Think about how many people are underserved by transportation today, like those with disabilities, and how self driving cars will transform their lives. Or the wasted time you sit in your car every day commuting to and from work. Or the deaths and injuries that could be avoided.
Loveless moments are to be avoided.
For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.
We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle & misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. The fact must be recognized. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. The law of life. No sense in battling against it.
I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided