Avoid Quotes

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. 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 think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.