Avoided Quotes
320 quotes by 298 authors
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If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing. If you're walking down the street talking to…
— Tim Burton
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Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could…
— Carl Rogers
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There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning…
— Matt Taibbi
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I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper…
— Helmut Newton
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I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my…
— Michael Vick
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If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the…
— Martin Van Buren
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The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by…
— Carroll Quigley
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Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing minor discord before…
— T.D. Jakes
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Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.
— Richard Foreman
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A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy and puppy might…
— Ben Ames Williams
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To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
— Longchenpa
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The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.
— Shawn Ryan
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Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be…
— Tina Weymouth
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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
— John Boyd Orr
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All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm…
— Dalai Lama
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Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and experience as to…
— Irwin Stone
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I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I…
— Saul Leiter
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Loveless moments are to be avoided.
— Yusef Lateef
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It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never grow. Lovers grow,…
— Rajneesh
Who Wrote These Avoided Quotes
298 authors contributed a total of 320 Avoided Quotes, led by these top contributors: