Avoided Quotes

320 quotes by 298 authors

OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY… — Cherie Priest
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes… — Andre Breton
Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could… — Mother Teresa
Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them.… — Pope Leo XIII
All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided. — Swami Vivekananda
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An… — Samuel Johnson
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring… — Epictetus
Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical… — Norman Ralph Augustine
For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast… — David Zindell
Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal â€œnoâ€.… — Fatou Bensouda
Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a… — Jon Stewart
Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic. — Mike Rowe
It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are… — Fiona Apple
We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view,… — Michelle Alexander
Being an artist doesnâ€™t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven… — Dean Koontz
Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to the use of… — Mark E. Petersen
Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another. — Vito Fossella
If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable… — Claire Weekes
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public… — Ulysses S. Grant

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