Avoid Quotes

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

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.

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them.

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.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

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.