Avoidance Quotes

99 quotes by 98 authors

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. — R. D. Laing
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. — Denis Healey
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they… — Michael Shurtleff
Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And… — Joanna Macy
Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general… — Max Weber
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but will… — Scott Stossel
Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying… — Tristram Stuart
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of… — Noam Chomsky
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can… — Martha Beck
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed… — Charles M. Blow
I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by tax… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. — Jill Robinson
An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall… — George Eliot
Patience is not just the avoidance of desperation, but the courage to wait for the best in the midst of serious desperations. — Terry Mark
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting
The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their… — Margaret Mead
I've been trying to avoid my problems, and I don't know what to do. I get high, but when I come down, my problems are… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler
I was avoiding it, and never came across in my mind but to my surprised I was caught in the act, had been chased up,… — Donah Cruz
Y'all just hating on my steez. I'm not listening to haters. — Ramandeep Singh

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