Top 100 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. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.
Richard Koch
#7. 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
#9. These "so thats," "becauses," and "whens" were like regulations; in decided to avoid them in order not to--
Peter Handke
#10. Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
Darby Conley
#11. 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
#12. Soldiers want to win wars, not avoid them." The
Ken Follett
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.
Jim Butcher
#16. 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
#17. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
George Eliot
#18. 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
#19. Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. 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
#21. Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.
Troy Vincent
#22. 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
#23. Those are serious questions. Let me avoid them as best I can.
Dinty W. Moore
#24. 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
#25. Becoming more deeply connected with those you admire and love bolsters, in you, the traits you most admire in them. Recognize behaviors that most upset you so, like defensive driving, you see potential "crashes" sooner and avoid them.
Kare Anderson
#26. 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
#27. In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
#28. I still love the people I've loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.
Uma Thurman
#29. When my kids were younger, I used to avoid them. I used to sit on the toilet 'til my legs fell asleep. You want to know why your father spends so long in the toilet? Because he's not sure he wants to be a father.
Louis C.K.
#30. Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.
Danny Pudi
#31. I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.
Kevin McKidd
#32. The best gift you can give to someone is spending time with them. The worst thing you can do someone is to avoid them when they badly need you.
Saravana Kumar Murugan
#33. I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who'd rather avoid them.
Rachel Hartman
#34. I'm never bored. Only people bore me, so I avoid them
Dexter Petley
#35. The quiet, almost passive young woman struck him as exactly the kind of person to whom things were bound to happen, no matter how much she shrank from them and went out of her way to avoid them.
Edith Wharton
#36. The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs - memories and Canada.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#37. Even at a young age one sometimes recognizes that there are behavior patterns that would simply be a waste of time for everyone concerned, which leads you to put them out of your mind or avoid them until you reach a certain stage of inebriation, whereupon everything is reconsidered again.
Whit Stillman
#38. That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.
Tasha Alexander
#39. One of the major differences between successful and unsuccessful people is that the former look for problems to resolve, whereas the latter make every attempt to avoid them.
Grant Cardone
#40. Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
Victor Hugo
#41. Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?
Eckhart Tolle
#42. Sometimes, to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.
Vironika Tugaleva
#43. You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.
Steven Soderbergh
#44. In the crime novels, a PI is either an ex-cop or has some cop buddies who owed him a favor and who happily provided him with the department's files, while carrying on about how it could cost them their job. I had no cop buddies. I tried to avoid them as much as possible.
Ilona Andrews
#45. Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
Daryl Hall
#46. If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them.
Sun Tzu
#47. In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
Ayn Rand
#48. You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.
Tim Robbins
#49. Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#50. Things are embarrassing, best to avoid them. But since your death I prefer a naturalist style of conversation. Let's strip it down to what matters. Let's have emotions and beliefs on show without the modest covering of small talk.
Rosamund Lupton
#51. All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
Macaulay Culkin
#52. Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#53. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.
Mhairi McFarlane
#54. When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.
Sun Tzu
#55. There are three approaches we can take toward our possessions: face them now, face them sometime, or avoid them until the day we die.
Marie Kondo
#56. In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#57. There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.
Paulo Coelho
#58. I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
Vanessa Paradis
#59. The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them
Felix Frankfurter
#60. Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.
Darrell Royal
#61. I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
Danai Gurira
#62. To defeat Fortune, men must anticipate such evils before they arise, and take prudent steps to avoid them. When the waters have already risen, it is too late to build dikes and embankments.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#63. Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.
Michelle Zink
#64. When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.
Confucius
#65. There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.
Wendy Cope
#66. Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.
Elena Ferrante
#67. If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
Larry Wall
#68. As someone who never followed rules, as someone who did everything she could to avoid them, I was done living by Marin's law. I needed Brent now. I would have him back. And soon.
Abigail Baker
#69. No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.
Jacobo Timerman
#70. Sometimes the ethical - the most important ethical question sometimes is the one you ask not at the moment of crisis, but the duty you have to anticipate certain kinds of crises and avoid them.
Sheri Fink
#71. Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than a license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run
Sting
#72. There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid them but you cannot. I've never known a genre like it where you are dictated to by these films, 2001, Alien, and Tarkovsky's Solaris.
Danny Boyle
#73. I asked Joe if he hated Ivy and Bucky. He said, "That would make as much sense as hating a rattlesnake. You don't hate rattlesnakes; you avoid them.
Maria Semple
#74. But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Paulo Coelho
#75. The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
George Sutherland
#76. An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
Werner Heisenberg
#77. If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.
Frederick Lenz
#78. If you know where you are putting your foot , you will see any traps and be able to avoid them
Paulo Coelho
#79. Mothers are like dungeons. Some really stink and you'll do anything to avoid them. And some are lush sanctuaries filled with gold, jewels, and butterscotch schnapps-spiked Nestle Nesquik.
Shelly Mazzanoble
#80. You can't avoid them forever, Ry.
You have to make a decision soon. It isn't fair what you are doing to either of them.
I know.
I'm just afraid of making the wrong one.
You aren't afraid of making the wrong one, Ry, it's the fact that you want to make the wrong one.
Rachel E. Carter
#81. First and foremost, prayer is so helpful. But I think that you need to face your fears head on. Don't avoid them or say that you're not scared. Acknowledge it and be honest about it. It's normal to get nervous about a big game or to get nervous about an important event in your life.
Matt Cullen
#82. The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thinks not of the dangers lurking beneath those pleasures, till too late to avoid them.
Susanna Rowson
#83. I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.
Raheel Farooq
#85. And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a big deal out of things in our heads. We do the work of the control freaks for them, out of a desire to avoid them.
G.R. Reader
#86. I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.
Chris O'Dowd
#87. My hope is that learning about past evils will help us to avoid them in the future.
Livia Bitton-Jackson
#88. Questions upon points wherein Scripture is silent; upon mysteries which belong to God alone; upon prophecies of doubtful interpretation; and upon mere modes of observing human ceremonials, are all foolish, and wise men avoid them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#89. We as human beings do this thing where we stuff down our feelings until they find a way to manifest themselves. We try to avoid them until there's no more room and they come bubbling up like a pot of boiling-hot water that overflows. And when it does, it burns.
Jennifer Lopez
#90. Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.
Neale Donald Walsch
#91. We aren't filled with fear except by things that are bad; and not by them, either, as long as it is in our power to avoid them.
Epictetus
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them.
Warren Ellis
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
