Avoid Quotes

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I want to avoid injuries by running only road.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.