Avoid Quotes

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?

We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.