A Quote by Steven Brust

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

Steven Brust

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Steven Brust
American - Author
Born: November 23, 1955

Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide are as rare as carefully planned acts of homicide.

Erwin Stengel

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

W. H. Auden

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

Peter Drucker

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

Piero Ferrucci

There can be no doubt that these attacks are deliberate acts of terrorism, carefully planned and coordinated and as such I condemn them utterly. Terrorism must be fought resolutely wherever it appears.

Kofi Annan

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

Pope Francis

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

J. Maarten Troost

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

George Carlin

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

John Gielgud

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

W. E. B. Du Bois

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Martin Freeman

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Vladimir Lenin

The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

W. Somerset Maugham

Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.

Ferdinand Lundberg

True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.

Frederic Dan Huntington

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