Avoid Quotes

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By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute… — John M Swomley
So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people… — Richard Stallman
To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for… — Ned Rorem
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard… — Ranulph Fiennes
I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty. — Loretta Lynn
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender. — Naz?m Hikmet
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of… — Xunzi
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little… — John B. S. Haldane
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author;… — Ernesto Sabato
Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop… — Ignatius Loyola
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. — Stephen L. Carter
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious… — Richard Rohr
All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was… — Robert E. Sherwood
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if… — Daniel Gilbert
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid. — Steve Berry
We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think… — Joko Beck
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing… — Rick Bass
When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out… — Rick Bass
The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid… — Clint Black
I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself. — Elizabeth Berkley

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