Avoid Quotes

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Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The best fights are the ones we avoid. — Jackie Chan
I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. — Gloria Swanson
And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow… — Terry Tempest Williams
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. — Horace
I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things. — Georgie Fame
Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover… — Ingmar Bergman
I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only… — Frank Herbert
No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial… — Giorgio Napolitano
I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records. — Boy George
You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst. — Italo Calvino
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so. — Karl Popper
Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to… — Richard G. Scott
I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies â€“ unconscious strategies â€“ to keep those feelings away. We do a… — Jeanette Winterson
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare… — Byron Katie
Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot. — Michelangelo Antonioni
A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently. — Michel de Montaigne
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith
PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's… — Ambrose Bierce
There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking. — Thomas A. Edison

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