Avoid Quotes

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

Normally I avoid movies where the aliens look like humans. It's cheesy.

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

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

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

I try to avoid giving advice.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.