Avoid Quotes

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When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it. — Keith Ablow
...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision- — Fulton J. Sheen
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in… — Paulo Coelho
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,… — Clive Barker
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from… — Rick Moody
If youâ€™re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is… — Michael Pollan
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt… — Aldous Huxley
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can. — John Irving
We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much. — James Hilton
Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate,… — William Strunk, Jr.
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. — Ayn Rand
Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the… — Karen Marie Moning
Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people… — Maya Angelou
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment,… — Barack Obama
In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another. — A. J. Jacobs
The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere,… — Wilhelm Reich
The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor… — Douglas Adams
Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. â€¦ Feed only… — Ezra Taft Benson
One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I… — Elizabeth Gaskell
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz… — Robin Hobb

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