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Tag Name "Forgo" (25)

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It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.
Hugh Howey
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Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.
J. K. Rowling
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We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.
Larry Page
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Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.
Natalie Coughlin
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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
Tacitus
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The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.
Thomas Frank
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Your chilly stars I can forgo, this warm kind world is all I know.
William Johnson Cory
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The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
William Shakespeare
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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
Ambrose Bierce
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If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.
Inge Morath
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In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
John Lyly
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Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.
Lawrence Venuti
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Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.
Martin Rees
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The hardest problem of all is to appreciate the facts that the poor nations are - quite reasonably - not going to forgo their development, and that they can only afford to develop by consuming fossil fuels.
Philip Kitcher
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The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless caught the camera holds the last lanyard of control we would forgo.
Stanley Cavell
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
Theodore Bikel
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I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.
Van Jones
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However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.
William Ernest Hocking
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To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted my no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it to go through intrigue spotless to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I haven't had a drink for 24 and a half years, so I don't live the kind of life anymore where I literally take mind altering substances, or do things in which I am able to forgo reality. I have the potential to be an enormously repressed individual in the guise of a freewheeling spirit.
Francis Levy
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