Avoid Quotes

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

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

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

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.

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.