Avoids Quotes

102 Avoids quotes by 92 unique authors

The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions.… — Frederick Lenz
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates… — Horace
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the… — William James Mayo
Abdur Rab offers a comprehensive vision of Islam using the Quran as his sole religious textual source. He intentionally avoids the hadith literature, which he… — Jeffrey Lang
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids… — Socrates
He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself. — Sathya Sai Baba
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls. — Bobby Knight
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our… — Sigmund Freud
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting. — Mason Cooley
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 it’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

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