Avoids Quotes

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.