Avoid Quotes

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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,… — Andrew Lansley
I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples… — Khaled Hosseini
I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments. — Quentin Blake
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness… — Sam Harris
We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After… — Theodore Dalrymple
The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter… — Theodore Zeldin
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect… — Roger Rosenblatt
When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking… — David Nevins
On really hot days, I try to motivate friends and family to come into the pool for an aqua jogging session which I teach. Aqua… — Dylan Lauren
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is… — James Thurber
Love is the life of our heart. According to it, we desire, rejoice, hope and despair, fear, take heart, hate, avoid things, feel sad, grow… — Charles Morgan
We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with… — Thomas Jefferson
The first thing a television viewer realizes when watching a golf tournament is how the sport tends to make one inclined to whisper and avoid… — Peter Alfano
The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite. — Lord Byron
If a person desires to understand clearly the sacred books and scriptural texts of India, to imbibe their message, he must learn the Sanskrit language;… — Sri Sathya Sai Baba
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer… — Thomas Merton
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing — Elbert Hubbard
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn… — Leo F Buscaglia
One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond… — Bertrand Russell
We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. — Martin Buber

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