A Quote by Thomas More

What is deferred is not avoided.

Thomas More

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Thomas More
English - Author
February 7, 1478 - July 6, 1535

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

Henry A. Kissinger

One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

Portia de Rossi

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.

Portia de Rossi

I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.

Heather Donahue

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

A. S. Byatt

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanier

Some of my friends in this business have received awful online abuse, but I've so far pretty much avoided it - and I've largely avoided meeting hideous people in the street. Most people tend to be charming.

Greg Davies

If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.

Dale Ahlquist

I am unknown because I've avoided the limelight so that I could serve. In the case of Donald Trump, he has avoided service so that he could seek the limelight.

Evan McMullin

The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.

Frederick Lenz

Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

Manmohan Singh

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

Chief Joseph

But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.

Alexi Giannoulias

Hope is a dream deferred.

Jennifer Stone

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