Avoiding Quotes - page 8

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias. (Dan Abrams)
Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things. View quote
Eli Roth
Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show. View quote
Gary Vaynerchuk
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. View quote
Henry Petroski
I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy. View quote
Ilona Andrews
Us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies. View quote
Joan Cusack
I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid. View quote
Joe Perry
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. View quote
Julie Kenner
Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl. "Yes... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man. View quote
Kim Harrison
For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those. View quote
Karl Lehmann
In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both. (Mariella Frostrup)
The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession. View quote
Mark Zandi
My goal and mission is to be very strong in avoiding back steps. I leave judgments, evaluations and analysis to the media, then to the observers. View quote
Enrico Letta
Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier. View quote
John Eisenhower
I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat. View quote
Martine McCutcheon
I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me. View quote
Murray Bartlett
For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own gorgeous collection runs into hundreds and I buy them the way I buy books - I simply can't pass a shop. I have loved them since I could spend my own money on them. View quote
Peter York
There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm. View quote
Rob Manuel
Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma. View quote
Robert Winston
With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying loose fruit and veg, choosing products with recyclable packaging, and avoiding individually wrapped portions - can have a big impact. View quote
Sheherazade Goldsmith
I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize. (Sylvia Kristel)
I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary. View quote
Victoria Moran
Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise. View quote
Paul Samuelson
The secret of avoiding monotony with the four-bar module was to vary the accent and the weight of the bars to avoid giving a similar emphatic accent on the first bar of every group, as if one were accenting a downbeat. After Beethoven and before Brahms, perhaps the greatest master of the technique was Chopin, as one can see from the opening of the Nocturne in D flat Major, Op. 27, no. 2, of 1836 ... View quote
Charles Rosen
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them. View quote
Evelyn Waugh