Avoiding Quotes

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. (Rutherford B. Hayes)

There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.

Francis Bacon

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Paul Tillich

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Saskya Pandita

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

George Burns

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

You can't make poetry simply by avoiding clichés.

Theodore Roethke

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. The Kitchen God's Wife.

Amy Tan

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it. (Brigitte Bardot)

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Helen Keller

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Augustine of Hippo

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

Amy Bloom

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

Edward R. Tufte

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Rollo May

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Susan Sontag

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Syd Barrett

There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings. (Sri Aurobindo)

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Cesare Pavese

We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

George W. Bush

I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

Neil Gaiman

There are two ways of confronting the country's problems. One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi

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