Avoid People Quotes

#1. Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

Nina Easton

#3. If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

Austan Goolsbee

#4. People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

James Taylor

#5. If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#6. Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#7. Owing to a poorly defined sense of self, people with BPD rely on others for their feelings of worth and emotional caretaking. So fearful are they of feeling alone that they may act in desperate ways that quite frequently bring about the very abandonment and rejection they're trying to avoid.

Kimberlee Roth

#8. The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.

Clint Black

#9. I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.

Patrick Ness

#10. An ordinary supervisor is a boss. A Super Supervisor is a leader. People avoid bosses, they follow leaders.

Mildred Ramsey

#11. People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.

Tony Robbins

#12. Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.

Nirmala Srivastava

#13. He realized that trust between people is what makes us happy. Any totalitarian state is based on betrayal. It needs people to inform on each other, to avoid socializing to interact only through the state and to avoid unsanctioned meetings.

Oliver Bullough

#14. Christianity is an intimate, growing relationship with the person of Jesus Christ. It is not a set of doctrines to believe, habits to practice, or sins to avoid. Every activity God commands is intended to enhance His love relationship with His people.

Henry T. Blackaby

#15. You may borrow them, if
you wish," so I could avoid letting him startle me.
"I'd like that very much."
"I should warn you, however, that I have several volumes devoted to curses for
people who don't return books."
"I'd like to borrow those, too.

Steven Brust

#16. I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#17. People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

Jennifer Aniston

#18. LOVE is complex,we (people) try to avoid it as we(people) are habitual of doing simple things.

Jitendra Bhardwaj

#19. But when people try to avoid suffering by sinning, they end up sinning their way into suffering. And

Lecrae Moore

#20. But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them.

Richard Peck

#21. With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

Charles Bukowski

#22. I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

David Coverdale

#23. The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

Ahmed Chalabi

#24. I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.

E. O. Wilson

#25. War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow and gloom. That is why people fear war. That is why people choose to avoid it.
~Izuru Kira

Tite Kubo

#26. Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.

Emily Oster

#27. If you keep focusing on what people have to say or will say about you, you will lose focus of what God has called you to do. Never let distractions bother you...if you do, you will only be giving your energy to an unworthy cause.

Kemi Sogunle

#28. Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

Rick Pitino

#29. Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

Danica McKellar

#30. Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.

Woody Allen

#31. You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.

Jarvis Cocker

#32. There are no voids when you choose to avoid the people, places and things that create the voids.

Robert J. Braathe

#33. I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

Elizabeth Warren

#34. We tell stories of other people's marriages, Detective Hastroll thought. We are experts in their parables and parabolas. Be can we tell the story of our own. If we could, Hastroll thought, there might be no murders. If we could, we might avoid our own cruelties and crimes.

Adam Ross

#35. Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems, and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors.

T. Harv Eker

#36. I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.

Brian Lindstrom

#37. To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it to happen somewhere public where people can be excited that I just got proposed to, and everyone applauds, like in a restaurant - that, or somewhere totally secluded ... in Paris.

Betty Who

#38. There is one more class of terminology to avoid: the "we-them" language that speaks disdainfully of nonbelievers or of other religions or denominations or simply caricatures or marginalizes the positions of people who do not share your beliefs and views.

Timothy Keller

#39. Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.

Frederick Lenz

#40. I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#41. I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

Adrian Tomine

#42. Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries to avoid the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him.

Gabrielle Zevin

#43. I must frankly admit that ... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.

Adolf Hitler

#44. Taking the leap involves making a commitment to ourselves and to the earth itself - making a commitment to let go of old grudges, to not avoid people and situations and emotions that make us feel uneasy, to not cling to our fears,

Pema Chodron

#45. I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape ... . If you read for escape you will never try to change your life, or anyone else's. It's a politically barren act, if nothing else. The overuse of imaginative fiction enables people to avoid the knowledge that they are actually alive.

M. John Harrison

#46. It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but ... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Jonathan Davis

#47. The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

Garrison Keillor

#48. Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

Danielle Steel

#49. Is this what nice is? Letting people think things that aren't true just to avoid hurting their feelings? Being nice is dishonest.

Amy Reed

#50. I like it because when people use a lot of poker lingo, it usually means they've been playing the game for a while. Which is why I immediately avoid those people.

Elle Lothlorien

#51. When people can do something simple to avoid conflict
say, hit a button or unlock a latch
they'll generally do it.

Keith Ablow

#52. It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too.

Mike Judge

#53. Which is another way of saying that people will pay good money to avoid the demands of virtue

Stefan Molyneux

#54. Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.

Carlo Dossi

#55. One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year and there is your profit sitting in the yard. We avoid businesses like that. We prefer those that can write us a check at the end of the year.

Charlie Munger

#56. People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.

Timothy Roderick

#57. Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

Mary Balogh

#58. I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

Harold E. Varmus

#59. Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

Gretchen Rubin

#60. There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.

Eliza Coupe

#61. Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like ...

Kathleen Hanna

#62. Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature

Ibn Taymiyyah

#63. I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

Alan Cumming

#64. Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#65. Being loved sounds good in the movies, in books, in the memories of people who've survived the rough beginnings of their love. In real life, in the very beginning? It's every deep fear you've ever wanted to avoid all wrapped in the most intense happiness and pleasure you've ever dreamed possible.

Steph Campbell

#66. We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

Charlie Kaufman

#67. It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

Thomas A. Edison

#68. Any time people create a "black market" to avoid government regulation, they are engaged in, and promoting, free market economics.

Dave Champion

#69. That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disagreeable, and this means that one repels and antagonises people, and then they dislike and avoid one--and that means more isolation and still more sorrow.

Vera Brittain

#70. Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.

Ben Stewart

#71. The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

Nhat Hanh

#72. Fear drove people to do things they'd never imagine themselves capable of just to avoid it.

Maya Rodale

#73. Many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. They apparently find cognitive effort at least mildly unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible.

Daniel Kahneman

#74. When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs - even when it represents nothing more than a temporary setback.

Steven D. Levitt

#75. In the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking ... Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

Antonio Guterres

#76. To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

Robin Marantz Henig

#77. Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend
that is not the life of the bookaneer, who must keep his eyes on the ground while other book people live by dreaming.

Matthew Pearl

#78. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

Theodore Roosevelt

#79. Whether particular people with the capacity to take an objective point of view actually do take this objective viewpoint into account when they act will depend on the strength of their desire to avoid inconsistency between the way they reason publicly and the way they act.

Peter Singer

#80. Don't waste time. Avoid the company of wasteful people who lack the desire to achieve. Become assertive and action-oriented.

Archibald Marwizi

#81. Ultimately, despite Atkins's wealth of practical knowledge in helping people lose weight and possibly avoid heart disease, he would not get a serious hearing from academic researchers until the twenty-first century.

Nina Teicholz

#82. There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity.

Frank Oppenheimer

#83. The secret for mastery is concentration; the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus one thing in particular. You will be a master!

Israelmore Ayivor

#84. Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Lord Chesterfield

#85. Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

Quintus Tullius Cicero

#86. Besides advising us to avoid people with vices, Seneca advises us to avoid people who are simply whiny, "who are melancholy and bewail everything, who find pleasure in every opportunity for complaint.

William B. Irvine

#87. I believe in a world of opposites and that's why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

Meryl Streep

#88. 'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.

Alex Pareene

#89. Most people avoid me, easily leaving two feet between us, and here is this little warrior trudging into battle without armor.
Terrified I'll break her, I weave my arms around her and hug her back. My eyes shut when she settles furthering into me. I rest my cheek on her head and simply breathe.

Katie McGarry

#90. You don't want to argue with me because you don't know how to. None of you do, because you avoid people who think differently,

Anonymous

#91. People who don't like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it's theoretically necessary

Patrick Lencioni

#92. Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

Brian Tracy

#93. Avoid people who are always having a bad day. In their minds, nothing ever works in their favor. They have a chronic "Woe Is Me" campaign that they continue to launch full blast. This kind of negativity depletes enthusiasm. You don't need the woe-is-me speech every day.

Steve Harvey

#94. Sex can be renounced
but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

Sallie Tisdale

#95. Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

Maurice Baring

#96. We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

Jim Talent

#97. Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

Lori Greiner

#98. Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

Garrison Keillor

#99. Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question.

Billy Connolly

#100. It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again ... " Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.

Damon Lindelof