Avoid Quotes

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'

Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.