Avoiding Quotes

444 quotes by 369 authors

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own… — Hannah Arendt
Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into… — Eckhart Tolle
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. — M. Scott Peck
There is little to compare with the thrill of standing next to the creature in the winner's enclosure avoiding his hooves and receiving the congratulations… — Robert Morley
Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel… — George Washington
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its… — Ray Kurzweil
Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work.… — John Earle
You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is… — Rajneesh
Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding… — Garry Kasparov
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. — Julie Kenner
Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you. — Wayne Dyer
Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat. — Margaret Atwood
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. — John Guare
No one can accuse Stuart Young of avoiding the big issues - with insight and verve, he tackles head on the existence of God, the… — Mark Chadbourn
I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and… — Raymond Briggs
I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one. — Henrietta Rose-Innes
Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We… — Steven Callahan
It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse. — Geneen Roth
Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a… — Jason Whitlock
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come… — Hunter S. Thompson

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