Avoiding Quotes

444 quotes by 369 authors

Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak,… — Xunzi
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around… — Terry Eagleton
We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think… — Joko Beck
I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they… — Deborah Bull
Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the… — Cat Cora
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either. — Rebecca Hall
What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk? — Sam Keen
I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize. — Sylvia Kristel
Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and… — Friedrich August von Hayek
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights. — Ford Madox Ford
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and… — Philip Yancey
Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses. — Leigh Newman
Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting? — C.S. Lewis
For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own… — Peter York
For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions… — Karl Lehmann
Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These… — Richard Moss
At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the… — Leo Tolstoy
Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it,… — Dalai Lama
All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body,… — Gautama Buddha
Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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