Avert Quotes

“The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.”

“a little modesty averts disgrace”

“To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”

“When the world uncovers some dark disguise,Embrace the darkness with averted eyes.”

“Frankly speaking, I'm not afraid of death. I don't endeavour to avert its advent. But I don't want to be a witness of it.”

“Whatever fate ordains, danger or hurt, or death predetermined, nothing can avert.”

“I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.”

“In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope for the soft marrow abi-deth in the hard bone.”

“Writing is a blurred mirror. Sometimes we work harder to see how we are reflected, but often we avert our gaze from the shadowy image.”