Avoid Quotes
2552 quotes by 1849 authors
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I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.
— Holly Hunter
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Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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I would avoid any product that contains genetically modified (GMO) corn, because there are still questions regarding the long-term health effects of genetically altered foods…
— Deirdre Imus
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You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain…
— Carlos E. Asay
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Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am…
— Dalai Lama
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Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question what business…
— Henry Maudslay
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We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.
— Ahmed Yassin
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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view…
— Russell Banks
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I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going…
— Chill Wills
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I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
— Anita Desai
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me…
— Orson Scott Card
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After announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Last winter I made the decision to coach for only one more season.…
— LaVell Edwards
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Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
— Helen Rowland
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To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than…
— Nathaniel Branden
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One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence…
— George Hackenschmidt
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[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with…
— L. Neil Smith
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Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by…
— Gautama Buddha
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