Avoided Quotes

320 quotes by 298 authors

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career. — Bob Hope
Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held… — Vincent of Lerins
Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides… — Mark Twight
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams — Paulo Coelho
Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown… — Alan Watts
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching… — Henry Ford
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that… — George Soros
An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning… — Aesop
At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going.… — Jennifer Carpenter
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding. — Robert M. Pirsig
There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that… — Steven T. Katz
[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of… — Vincent de Paul
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of… — Anais Nin
A war put off is not a war avoided. — Charlton Heston
In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series… — Richard Holbrooke
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do… — Jhumpa Lahiri
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself… — Karl Kraus
If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon… — Q'orianka Kilcher
One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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