Avoiding Quotes
444 quotes by 369 authors
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Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune…
— Robert Winston
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
— Virginia Woolf
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I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb…
— Judith Wright
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The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming good. And the…
— David A. Bednar
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All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to…
— Blaise Pascal
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin
— Ai Yazawa
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I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply…
— Bernhard Schlink
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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
— Ayn Rand
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs,…
— Jack London
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
— Thomas Jefferson
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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
— P.D. James
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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing…
— Jack London
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But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger…
— Anne Lamott
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Well,†said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?†“Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they…
— Patricia C. Wrede
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You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again." "I wasn't. I did…
— Cassandra Clare
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Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that…
— Paulo Coelho
Who Wrote These Avoiding Quotes
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