A Quote by Chief Joseph

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

Chief Joseph

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Avoid Bloodshed Hard Trouble

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Chief Joseph
American - Leader
March 3, 1840 - September 21, 1904

My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

Eduard Shevardnadze

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

Aristotle

The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.

Robert Jordan

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

Charles Horton Cooley

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

William Barclay

And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.

Kamisese Mara

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

Anthony Bourdain

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.

Duong Van Minh

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

Edwin Lutyens

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

Charles Bukowski

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There's no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody's got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it.

Paul Bowles

There's people that have labored and labored and it takes them a long time before they get that break and then they get it. Then sometimes, I've seen guys with a lot of talent never get it. It's the nature of the beast.