Top 100 Avoided Quotes
#1. Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.
Raheel Farooq
#2. The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
Branford Marsalis
#3. A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.
Vladimir Yakunin
#4. Men get out of countenance with themselves and others because they treat the means as the end, and so, from sheer doing, do nothing, or, perhaps, just what they would have avoided.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#5. Old saying, 'What goes around comes around.' You could have avoided ALL this turmoil IF YOU had only played fair.
Michael MacCambridge
#6. I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.
Chuck Klein
#7. I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
John Steinbeck
#8. So for the sake of your identity," she said, "you avoided using your real name, which effectively allowed someone else to use your real name and steal your identity.
Joshua Ferris
#9. In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#10. (talking about his children) I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.
John Elkann
#11. Probably we each could point to times in our own lives when if we had listened to someone's advice, we, too, could have avoided many problems.
Devin Brown
#12. ... it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour constitute a hazard to society. If unpleasantness is to be avoided, they must be made to go outdoors and work off their animal spirits.
Alan Bradley
#13. No one stands at the beginning of a race and then finds himself at the end having never taken a step forward. And if that were to happen - the sweat and struggle avoided - what stories would he have to tell? The goal includes the journey; it's all part of the dream.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. However aware we are that a certain fate cannot be avoided, we cannot help blaming the person who gets that monster to its feet...and leads it into the room.
Hugh Fleetwood
#15. Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.
Ben Bernanke
#16. Whenever possible, Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar, Duke of Kinross, Chief of Clan MacAulay,
avoided rooms crowded with Englishmen. They were all babbling gossips with more earwax than
brains, as his father was wont to say.
Though Shakespeare had got there first.
Eloisa James
#17. Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
Edward Norton
#18. ..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...
Michel Leiris
#19. But we always avoided talking about these things - difficult things - and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.
Catherine Lacey
#20. When you stop viewing chaos as an end state to be avoided and start viewing it as the beginning and ongoing default state of most things in life then that becomes something that is either terrifying or incredibly liberating.
Christian Cook
#21. I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.
Gail Carson Levine
#22. Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!
Billy Graham
#23. He's a fucking fool"
Sophie shrugged and looked out of the window.
"Maybe. He's avoided having sex with me for more than six months now."
"I'll say it again. He's a fucking fool."
"Yes."
...
"Would it help if we fucked?
Kitty French
#24. Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.
Alice Hoffman
#26. For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.
Mark Viduka
#27. Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.
Shantideva
#28. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell
#29. I love you," he said simply. "I should have told you a long time ago. Maybe we could have avoided so many stupid mistakes if I had. Then again," he added, beginning to smile, "sometimes I think it was all those obstacles that made me love you so deeply.
Kiera Cass
#30. That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Horace
#32. Should the discovery of fire have been avoided because arsonists can misuse it? Any kind of information can be misused by those who are determined to do so. The place to stop the misuse of knowledge is not at the point of inquiry, but at the point of misuse.
Arthur R. Jensen
#33. 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.
W. H. Auden
#34. As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.
Margaret Atwood
#35. One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.
Willy Russell
#36. Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#37. A broken heart and God's will done would be better than that God's will should be avoided and her own satisfied.
Robert Hugh Benson
#38. I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.
Nick Clegg
#39. I'm a pretty organised packer, laying out everything beforehand, as I don't like to take extra stuff. I've got a good eye for judging how much I can stuff into one suitcase. I've often not brought the right items, but I'd never avoided a chance to shop, unlike most men.
Kyle MacLachlan
#40. Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps ... Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#41. Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
Robert M. Pirsig
#42. The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.
Rosie O'Donnell
#43. 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.
Pearl S. Buck
#44. All of man's work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#45. I didn't want him to be the one I avoided because he'd hurt me. If I was just his friend, then I would still be blessed. If that meant swallowing my pride and being his shoulder when he got hurt, or being the one he ranted at when he was angry; I was prepared to do it and to do it with dignity.
Jessica Thompson
#46. If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
Kate Beckinsale
#47. 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.
Zachary Taylor
#48. I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.
Frederick Lenz
#49. There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can't be avoided.
Gina Bellman
#50. We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Clarence Day
#51. Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain
#52. Marian and I avoided all further reference to that other subject, which by her consent and mine, was not to be mentioned between us yet. It was not the less present in our minds
it was rather kept alive in them by the restraint which we had imposed on ourselves
Wilkie Collins
#53. I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.
Chuck Noll
#54. Morning conversations should be between very close friends or lovers, and otherwise avoided entirely.
Gene Doucette
#55. One should love from a position of wholeness. One should have a firm and rich sense of self no matter what. For there is always pain - it cannot be avoided in this life, more's the pity. But pain should not destroy the person who feels it.
Mary Balogh
#56. All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided. But if Edward can defeat the queen, and imprison her along with her husband, then it will indeed be over.
Philippa Gregory
#57. (Personally, I have avoided many fights by going to bed angry and waking up to realize that I'd just been tired.)
Ada Calhoun
#58. A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#59. I usually avoided any form of getting ready on Saturdays-the process just took away from the magic of being lazy.
Shannen Crane Camp
#60. If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.
Buddy Wakefield
#61. The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.
John Olver
#62. One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.
Mario Bunge
#63. After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.
Nell Newman
#64. I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.
Chris Lowe
#65. There is a speculative battle innate to imagination this much we know, yet let us not 'bear the wounds'2 of battles' avoided. Petrified imaginaries are the scars of our aversion; calcified thought coagulated into magical formulas of destructive equivalence.
Anonymous
#66. Apologies tended to give him migraines, which was why he avoided them. (Eoin)
Annie Nicholas
#67. I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
Michael Douglas
#68. Women who read are dangerous. Women who write are to be avoided.
Chloe Thurlow
#69. Mind telling me what's so funny?" he asked as he spooned beans onto their plates. "Nothing." Lorelai avoided looking at Kol. "Then if nothing is funny, you two can stop grinning at each other like village idiots and start eating your dinner. I imagine tomorrow will be another difficult day." And
C.J. Redwine
#70. In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.
Albert Einstein
#71. Look tough and no one messed with you. Look homicidal and they avoided you entirely. Which
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. 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.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#73. red meat that has been processed into bacon, bologna, hot dogs, sandwich meats, and other products with added salt is best avoided altogether.
Michael Moss
#74. Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.
Vironika Tugaleva
#75. The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.
Jennifer Beals
#76. During the past few years I have avoided tiring myself and losing my breath. I must take care of my body, treat it with respect as a musician does his instrument. I apply nonviolence to my body, for it is not merely a tool to accomplish something. It itself is the end.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#77. We're trained in school to equate mistakes with bad grades - something to be avoided at all costs. The alpha makers were somehow able to dodge that. They think that mistakes are just part of the creative process and maybe even the best way to learn.
Mark Frauenfelder
#78. There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#79. Several officers had stopped by to ask about Day, all of them avoided mentioning God's psychotic threats against the kingpin. Hell, if his coworkers weren't afraid of him before then, they sure as fuck were now. Day
A.E. Via
#80. When I was at primary school, we had this theory that if you ate an egg, it meant you'd get pregnant and give birth to a chicken or another egg. It was something we dared together. I avoided eggs for years, but now they're my favourite food.
Erin O'Connor
#81. It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent.
Raymond Kelly
#82. There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.
Henry Ford
#83. They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
Giordano Bruno
#84. While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.
Ellen G. White
#85. With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided
Eason Jordan
#86. Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.
Gina Greenlee
#87. Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.
Robin Hobb
#88. The Pharisees deliberately avoided the Late form of Biblical Hebrew (LBH), which is the language of the Bible written after the exile, presenting their teaching in the language of the spoken vernacular.
Angel Saenz-Badillos
#89. When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.
Maeve Binchy
#90. Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.
Tom Hodgkinson
#91. Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.
Alain De Botton
#92. Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.
Peter Thiel
#93. I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don't think being sad is to be avoided. It's apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that's sadistic of me.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#94. Only narrowly avoided being elbowed in the face by a girl attired in what could only be described as "slutty Gryffindor" apparel. So wrong.
Michelle Hodkin
#95. I avoided Thomas Hardy because everyone should, and anyway, I was depressed enough.
Jodi Taylor
#96. He avoided stepping on the plants - though he wasn't sure why he bothered. The crops hardly seemed worth the effort. Wan, with wilted brown leaves, the plants seemed as depressed as the people who tended them.
Brandon Sanderson
#97. I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.
Richelle Mead
#98. The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite.
Fulton J. Sheen
#99. I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore.
Neil Young
#100. World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
Richard Holbrooke
