Avoid Quotes

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him.

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.