Avoid Quotes

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'

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 don't shoot that any more.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.

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

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.