Avoid Quotes
2552 quotes by 1849 authors
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Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer — that it was better to leave well…
— Tom Perrotta
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It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
— Ivan Goncharov
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When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Together we made our way from the service entrances in back to the front, Jenks shedding clothes and handing them to me to stuff in…
— Kim Harrison
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I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you…
— Larry McMurtry
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Well … Zeus approves, Aeolus muttered. ―He says … he says it would be better if you could avoid saving her until after the weekend,…
— Rick Riordan
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I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're…
— Kevin Hearne
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Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work…
— Ursula Vernon
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Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one…
— Aberjhani
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She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.
— Charles Frazier
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I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid…
— Carl Jung
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
— Guy de Maupassant
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Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men…
— Joss Whedon
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...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.
— Lisa Kleypas
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One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid…
— Piers Anthony
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Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or…
— Lee Child
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Every moment away from you feels like time spent in a sort of cell. I can think of nothing, dream of nothing, but you. Unfortunately,…
— Meg Cabot
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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the…
— Anais Nin
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