Avoid Quotes

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

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.

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

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.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.

I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise.

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children.

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.