Avoid Them Quotes

#1. We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

Julian Fellowes

#2. I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.

Audrey Niffenegger

#3. We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

Walter Savage Landor

#4. Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.

Frederick Lenz

#5. In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

Robert Breault

#7. I call them sacred echoes because I noticed that throughout my relationships, daily life, and study, the same scripturally sound idea or phrase or word will keep reappearing until I can no longer avoid its presence. -The Sacred Echo

Margaret Feinberg

#8. Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.

Leona Lewis

#9. She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house.

Anne Ursu

#10. It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, be able to evade them; if weaker, be able to avoid them.

Sun Tzu

#11. I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them.

Warren Ellis

#12. Parents here only view school as a way to avoid being illiterate. They don't see education as a way to change their future and help them out of poverty.

Dan Washburn

#13. To not make any resolutions. Whenever I make them, I wind up ultimately breaking them. I think a lot of people are that way, so I am going to try and avoid inevitable disappointment next year and just not make any.

Emily Blunt

#14. The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him.

Donal Logue

#15. Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.

Richard Koch

#16. I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.

Katherine Hannigan

#17. There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.

Janny Wurts

#18. If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them.

Marie Forleo

#19. The Atonement of Jesus Christ does not just provide a way to clean up messes; it provides the purpose and desire to avoid making more messes. The Atonement doesn't allow us to ignore our appetites or pretend they don't matter, but to educate and elevate them.

Brad Wilcox

#20. An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.

Theodor Mommsen

#21. I'm wondering if every person I pass has similar depths, and if there's any way to avoid the mistake of judging them so shallowly that I'm rocked when they show their true complexity.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

Timothy Keller

#23. The U.S. have printed money; they intend to tax the rich in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. These are things that sees anyone who dares to propose them in Greece and Europe labeled an extremist, when at the same time, it's what Obama does.

Alexis Tsipras

#24. Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

Michael Caine

#25. 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

#26. These "so thats," "becauses," and "whens" were like regulations; in decided to avoid them in order not to--

Peter Handke

#27. Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#28. Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate ... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Cliff Burton

#29. Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

Darby Conley

#30. Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we have to avoid: an excuse. As it is, people who see more fat people around them may themselves be more likely to gain weight.

Andrew Lansley

#31. We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down - locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that don't hinder running. Erin's suggestion of "Avoid assholes" was popular.

Tammara Webber

#32. There are many different forms of life in the universe and human beings are unaware of most of them. Complex beings inhabit other dimensions. They can be very dangerous when encountered, unless, of course, you know how to handle or avoid them.

Frederick Lenz

#33. There are things you can change, the ones you can accomodate the ones you must avoid and the ones you definitely cannot do anything about. If you surrender all of them to JESUS the LORD, HE would give you Peace and Love in return.

James C. Uwandu

#34. My favorite sign says, 'I care about you.' In a culture that trains people to avoid each other's gaze, to say 'Let them die,' that is a deeply radical statement.

Naomi Klein

#35. 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

#36. Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#37. Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

Epictetus

#38. Soldiers want to win wars, not avoid them." The

Ken Follett

#39. We use to think that we'll go to Heaven if we avoid sins or have our pastor remove them. To labor ourselves into paradise is a new and somewhat discouraging perspective.

Stefan Emunds

#40. I was told very sternly at the hospital to avoid boys at all costs. Mess up your levels."
"Oh, they do that!" Amy laughs. "Probably best to leave them alone for a while. The secret, though, is to start with one you're not that bothered about."
What is the point in that?

Teri Terry

#41. Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

Mike DeWine

#42. All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us

Helen Keller

#43. 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

#44. The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.

Duff McDonald

#45. My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.

Rebecca Stead

#46. I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.

Karen Finerman

#47. It's all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system

Ed Seykota

#48. However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

Teresa Of Avila

#49. You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.

Jim Butcher

#50. Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

Baruch Spinoza

#51. The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

Alfie Kohn

#52. Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

Huda Sha'arawi

#53. Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

Hunter S. Thompson

#54. You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#55. Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

Roh Moo-hyun

#56. What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

Oprah Winfrey

#57. AS A chemist, Vogel knew how to make a bomb. In fact, much of his training was to avoid making them by mistake.

Andy Weir

#58. Education and study, and the favours of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

Plutarch

#59. Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.

Khalil Gibran

#60. To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

Jack Kornfield

#61. One thing I try to avoid in my films are effects that have a CG 'look' to them. The challenge is never let the audience get distracted by thinking that they're watching something made in a computer.

Jonathan Mostow

#62. At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule

Harun Yahya

#63. The journey God has set before us isn't a freeway; we are constantly encountering forks and junctions and crossroads. Which way will we go when we meet them? Life is filled with decisions, and we can't avoid them.

Billy Graham

#64. What use are experiences if we're not allowed to remember them? If we forget in order to avoid the pain of loss? What is the point of living if we have to always insulate ourselves?

Carrie Ryan

#65. Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.

Andre Agassi

#66. Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.

Karen Marie Moning

#67. We plan to avoid cupids," Mr. Audley said.
"Cupids?" Amelia echoed. Good heavens, he did move from topic to topic.
He shrugged. "I have discovered that I am not fond of them."
How could anyone not be fond of cupids?

Julia Quinn

#68. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

George Eliot

#69. If people aren't there for you now, when you really need them, they never will be, and it's time to move on. You'll be amazed by how many new friends you have in the after. They'll be the ones who aren't afraid of sorrow, who know we can't avoid it. The best we can do is face it together.

Alice Hoffman

#70. 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

#71. For the wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off in order to avoid having them stolen from under you.

Bertolt Brecht

#72. Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#73. We need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

Sue Monk Kidd

#74. Let these innocent people be careful not to invest in corporations where those in control are not men of probity, men who respect the laws; above all let them avoid the men who make it their one effort to evade or defy the laws.

Theodore Roosevelt

#75. Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste.

Tristram Stuart

#76. I can't say I'm unhappy about it,' added the bard, 'I get along well enough with mice, and I've always been found of birds, but when you put the two together I'd just as soon avoid them.

Lloyd Alexander

#77. 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

#78. When life throws difficulties at us and the mind is restless, emotional resilience will see us through challenging times. We can work through tempestuous emotions and self-doubt and come through them unharmed and avoid self-sabotage and self-harm.

Christopher Dines

#79. To avoid being disappointed, avoid placing your expectations on others. Love lets them be who they are and it allows them to react the way they want to react.

Praying Medic

#80. Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

Troy Vincent

#81. Learn from your mistakes. The number one reason I see entrepreneurs failing isn't because they make mistakes, but they keep on making the same ones over and over again. Learn from them and avoid making the same ones over again.

Neil Patel

#82. We give Supreme Court justices this freedom because we expect them to remain above the pull of politics, to avoid the effects of public excitement and allow a broader view, not tied to the whims of the majority at a certain moment in history.

Herb Kohl

#83. It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#84. In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: Multiply entities unnecessarily.

J. Budziszewski

#85. We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

Shakti Gawain

#86. Those are serious questions. Let me avoid them as best I can.

Dinty W. Moore

#87. I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Horace Walpole

#88. Children are like water; they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid or follow the contours.

Nilesh Rathod

#89. I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylor

#90. You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.

Neil Postman

#91. Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.

Walter Savage Landor

#92. There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Paulo Coelho

#93. But if you don't want to go with them, you're going to have to lash yourself to the bed like sailors who lashed themselves to masts to avoid jumping into the sea with Sirens.

Holly Black

#94. Start-ups often die in the first 18 to 24 months because of formative mistakes, like choosing a bad co-founder or the wrong corporate entity or an inappropriate platform. Ninety percent of the companies the Founder Institute has created are alive because we've helped them avoid those mistakes.

Adeo Ressi

#95. Even though I avoid buying clothes that are 'in fashion', choosing things I fall in love with and wearing them till they fall apart - and generally going for vintage when it comes to evening wear - I still, like every woman I know, suffer from occasional pangs of 'clothes guilt'.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#96. When we teach kids to follow the rules that there's only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we're resigning them to average.

Josh Linkner

#97. I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

Annette Bening

#98. I wandered the sidewalk watching all the street performers doing their juggling acts, playing their musical instruments, busting their asses to avoid work. I liked that. But I wanted to tell them there were easier ways to avoid work, like cab driving.

Gary Reilly

#99. If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?

Michael Muhammad Knight

#100. Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

Linus Torvalds