Avoided Quotes

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided

I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.

Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.

Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies.

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.

I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.

It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.

Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise.

It's my genius plan of avoiding any career momentum whatsoever. Definitely the pop-culture thing is something I've avoided in my act. It's just too transitory and ephemeral.

Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.

Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude.

The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.

I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.

The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.

Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.