Avoid Quotes · Page 11

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

— Jack Schwartz

I don't even drink coffee. I try to avoid becoming reliant on any substance.

— Lucy Dacus

“the more you avoid this world, the more you will desire hereafter”

— Faheema

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation

— Denis Hayes

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

— St. Jerome

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

— Julius Caesar

I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.

— Chris O'Dowd

I try to conserve water and avoid plastic as much as I can.

— Jim Sarbh

You don't want the second-most powerful government on Earth mad at you, if you can avoid it.

— Daryl Morey

Oh man, I always try to avoid anything that I can already imagine. I want the thing that I don't even know…

— Rege-Jean Page

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache…

— Phil Bredesen

I did want to lock each game up before Final Jeopardy, to avoid losing to a bad bounce in that round.

— James Holzhauer

“One of the Ten Commandments should have been, “Avoid taking yourself seriously.”

— Guillaume Morissette

I don't really compare myself to a lot of other running backs - that's no offense to any other running back, but…

— Le'Veon Bell

The big teams will want to avoid Liverpool. Everyone knows we are a very strong side.

— Emre Can

Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.

— Donovan

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like…

— Nate Ruess

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a…

— James Bovard

I actually avoid talking about my diet and exercise regime because I have interviewed so many people affected by eating disorders and…

— Holly Willoughby

As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little…

— Scott Anderson

I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist,…

— Abi Morgan

There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could…

— Eliza Coupe

I prefer to avoid the phrase 'strong women' when talking about female characters and the lack thereof or the need therefore, because…

— Zawe Ashton

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed…

— Elliot Perlman

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

— Demetri Martin

It is very important for me personally to avoid stereotypes.

— Sanjay Mishra

“Far too often we miss life by doing something that we call ‘life.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I always try to avoid anything that has to do with my life.

— Gilbert Gottfried

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

— Henry David Thoreau

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

— John C. Maxwell

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

— William Safire

Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask.

— Jack Adams

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

— Michael Clarke Duncan

Most unpleasant metaphor. Please avoid it in the future.

— Cheshire Cat

Benjamin Netanyahu seems to avoid any initiative.

— Ehud Barak

Mark Hunt has a huge knockout power, but I will do my best to avoid that.

— Fabricio Werdum

“Most of us will do anything to avoid facing ourselves”

— Lolly Daskal

“Love was not a comfortable feeling. No wonder I tried to avoid it.”

— Fabian Black

Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

— George Carlin

Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

— Thomas a Kempis