Avoided Quotes · Page 5

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

— Bruno Schulz

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.

— Roseanne Barr

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

— Mark Viduka

In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

— Ludwig von Mises

In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

— Bertrand Russell

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

— Buffalo Bill

“Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a…

— Ted Nugent

I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me,…

— Jackie Earle Haley

I was avoiding everyone for you and u avoided me.life...everyone owns it but some of us can understand the real meaning of…

— Ritesh

“If there wasn’t an English word for it, though, then it was probably work best avoided, at least until she was really…

— Nick Hornby

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of…

— Thomas Jefferson

I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at…

— Guy Green

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

— Richard Holbrooke

It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick,…

— Raymond Kelly

It's hard to fully enjoy your time on Earth without having your health. Ask anyone battling health issues - most especially, issues…

— Adam Rodriguez

If any occupation or association is found to hinder our communion with God or our enjoyment of spiritual things, then it must…

— Arthur W. Pink

Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today,…

— Wayne Dyer

The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media…

— Gail Sheehy

When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided…

— Ram Dass

Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant-or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my…

— Esther Smith

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

— Ridley Scott

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

— William Penn

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

— Paulo Coelho

Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided.

— Benjamin Franklin

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

— Oscar Wilde

The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite

— Jeremy Clarkson

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

— Noam Chomsky

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

— Annie Dillard

With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided

— Eason Jordan

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

— Publilius Syrus

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

— Michael Douglas

Once you feel your avoided by someone, Never disturb them again..

— Anonymous

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“A good deal of frustration and unhappiness could be avoided if people would just do what they know they should do.”

— Earl Nightingale

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

— Mahatma Gandhi

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

— Chief Joseph