Avoided Quotes

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Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided

This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.

Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

The chaotic situation in Libya is definitely creating a threat. Libya now connects the jihadists in Africa with those in the Middle East and in Afghanistan. This could have been avoided.

A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

A battle avoided cannot be lost.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

Loveless moments are to be avoided.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.