Avoid Quotes

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In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living. — Dick Van Dyke
Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid… — Sylvia Earle
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different.… — Britt Ekland
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share. — R. Lee Ermey
We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them. — Julian Fellowes
You avoid the hype while you're working, you have to, but the premiere is the one night of the year where you can enjoy it. — Tom Felton
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. — Jean de La Fontaine
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep… — Nhat Hanh
Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different. — Michael Haneke
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It… — Thomas Hardy
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. — Thomas Hardy
We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but… — Stephen Harper
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others,… — Sam Harris
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible… — Vaclav Havel
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit… — Frank Herbert
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear… — Alfred Hitchcock
I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. — David Hockney
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. — Abbie Hoffman
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. — Elbert Hubbard

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