Avoid Quotes
2552 quotes by 1849 authors
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The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and…
— Stephen Fry
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I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.
— Steven Morrissey
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
— William Faulkner
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Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally…
— C.S. Lewis
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I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And…
— Julian Barnes
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It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but…
— Paulo Coelho
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Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t…
— Osamu Dazai
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Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from…
— Laura Esquivel
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At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick…
— Yann Martel
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It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's…
— Stormie Omartian
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If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.
— Paulo Coelho
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Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear,…
— Giacomo Casanova
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about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at…
— Alice Hoffman
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each…
— Og Mandino
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural…
— Albert Einstein
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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a…
— Oscar Wilde
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