Avoided Quotes

320 quotes by 298 authors

If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers… — Gautama Buddha
But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to… — Alexi Giannoulias
Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you… — Bill Pullman
I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because… — Mary Schiavo
My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably… — Steve Wozniak
The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite — Jeremy Clarkson
But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any… — Joseph Lister
Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what is… — Mark Lynas
There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuing solemn dogmatic… — Pope Paul VI
What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
What is deferred is not avoided. — Thomas More
For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself. — Henri Matisse
I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life. — Leigh Steinberg
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in… — Neal A. Maxwell
A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual;… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be… — Zachary Taylor
I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying… — Thomas Bernhard
The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out. — Seth Godin

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