Avoid Quotes

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

So much relies on the singer I thought the best way to avoid that problem was to become the singer!

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.