Avoid Quotes

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As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of… — Peter Wright
Before a game, I avoid having a heavy meal so that I don't feel sleepy at the board. You eat to be healthy, and that… — Viswanathan Anand
The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming good. And the… — David A. Bednar
I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat. — Caitlin Moran
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it. — Martin Filler
A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible. — Evgeny Morozov
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice,… — Albert Schweitzer
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. — Max Ehrmann
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure… — C.S. Lewis
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what… — Charles Dickens
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a… — Confucius
Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it. — Rumi
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer;… — Woody Allen
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn,… — Leo Buscaglia
Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a… — M. Scott Peck
And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need… — Gregory Maguire
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle. — Darby Conley
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching… — Paul Rudnick
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able… — Douglas Adams
The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas. — Albert Einstein

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