Avoiding Quotes

444 quotes by 369 authors

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. — Socrates
When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely,… — Michael Zaslow
I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has… — Albert Einstein
Avoiding complexity reduces bugs. — Linus Torvalds
Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire… — T. Colin Campbell
I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. — Tony Blankley
For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such… — Pema Chodron
Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact… — Peter Singer
Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it. — Zig Ziglar
But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view,… — Richard Wurmbrand
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds,… — Sakya Pandita
There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had… — Paul Collier
God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called.… — Helen Keller
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done. — John Kenneth Galbraith
It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We… — Epictetus
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. — Jack Kornfield
Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now. — Eckhart Tolle
Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any… — Unknown Author
Faith is not a leap in the dark; itâ€™s the exact opposite. Itâ€™s a commitment based on evidenceâ€¦ It is irrational to reduce all faith… — John Lennox
For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it.… — Georges St-Pierre

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