Avoid Quotes

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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. — Robin Hobb
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. — Emily Bronte
I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty… — Audrey Niffenegger
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much… — Cecelia Ahern
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Carl Jung
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots… — P.G. Wodehouse
Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don'tin your… — Erwin Rommel
What are the facts? Again and again and again â€“ what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what â€œthe stars foretell,â€… — Robert A. Heinlein
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when… — Paulo Coelho
By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain… — Hugh Prather
Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content… — Robert M. Pirsig
DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. — Terry Pratchett
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them. — Ayn Rand
It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself. — Patricia Briggs
If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure… — John O'Donohue
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that… — Don DeLillo
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have… — Graham Greene
One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it. — Peter Cook
Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad". — Nick Hornby

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