Avoid Quotes
2552 quotes by 1849 authors
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I don’t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion.
— Rumi
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
— Haile Gebrselassie
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Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.
— Publilius Syrus
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Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Avoid running at all times.
— Satchel Paige
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The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is…
— Douglas Adams
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Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.
— John Cheever
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
— Dorothy Parker
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Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To…
— Blaise Pascal
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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid…
— Ellen Glasgow
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
— Karl Kraus
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Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't…
— Lee Iacocca
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and…
— William Howard Taft
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If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is…
— Sun Tzu
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The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which…
— Douglas Coupland
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I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to…
— Damien Hirst
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