Avoids Quotes

102 quotes by 92 authors

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever… — Edsger Dijkstra
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past. — Evan Esar
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. — W. Somerset Maugham
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. — Robert Louis Stevenson
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein
Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never… — Gena Showalter
The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it.… — Kenneth Rexroth
Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully... — Samuel R. Delany
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the… — Jeanette Winterson
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. — Frantz Fanon
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun,… — Leo Tolstoy
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Then itâ€™s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair… — Suzanne Collins
The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy. — Alex Shakar
Sean takes my ponytail in his hand, his fingers touching my neck, and then he tucks my hair into my collar out of the reach… — Maggie Stiefvater
All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!! — Abdul Kalam
Is this Prior?" "In the flesh." "Why's he bleeding?" "Because he's an idiot." Zeke offers me a black jacket with a factionless symbol stitched into… — Veronica Roth

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