A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Quote by Thomas Hardy
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Thomas Hardy Quotes
- The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
- Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.
- A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
- The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Best Quotes
- Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
- A heart is like a mirror, drop it and it will never be the same.
- I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
- Less is only more where more is no good.
- In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
- Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
- I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
- Never have more children than you have car windows.
- Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.