Avoid Quotes

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.