Avoiding Quotes

444 quotes by 369 authors

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them — Evelyn Waugh
But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the… — Kate Jacobs
You know, I wouldnâ€™t have done this a month ago. I wouldnâ€™t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now Iâ€™m just waiting. Things… — Martin Amis
maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as… — Nicholas Sparks
Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right.… — Brandon Mull
The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on… — George Orwell
It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting. — John Grisham
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of… — Ayn Rand
Speaking the Lordâ€™s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We… — Spencer W. Kimball
Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf. — Maggie Stiefvater
Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her glasses, put down… — Susan Mallery
IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days… — Charles Yu
Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up… — Lois McMaster Bujold
I wasn't fooled. He was avoiding looking at me. "There's nothing to talk about." "I knew you'd say that. Actually, it was a toss-up between… — Richelle Mead
It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls werenâ€™t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking. — Cassandra Clare
Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing. — Portia de Rossi
It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is… — Terry Pratchett
I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful. — Simone Elkeles
Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things. — Patricia C. Wrede

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