quotes about Avoiding
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My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
-- Amy Bloom -
I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.
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The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
-- Arthur HelpsSource : Arthur Helps (1851). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.263
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Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time
-- Bo -
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
-- Cesare PaveseSource : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.265, Transaction Publishers
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Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.
-- Dalai Lama -
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When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.
-- David Allen -
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
-- Fred Thompson -
It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.
-- Geneen Roth -
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Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
-- Horace -
Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
-- John D. MacDonald -
When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.
-- John Gielgud -
It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
-- John GrishamSource : John Grisham (2010). “Ford County”, p.248, Random House
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I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.
-- Julie KennerSource : Julie Kenner (2014). “The Trouble with Demons”, p.375, JKInk
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Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.
-- Kosho Uchiyama -
Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.
-- Kristin Cashore -
Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
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I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.
-- Margaret Atwood -
You can't find peace by avoiding life.
-- Michael Cunningham -
You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.
-- Michael Cunningham -
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There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
-- Neil Gaiman -
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
-- Paul Tillich -
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
-- Rebecca HallSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing
-- Soichiro Honda -
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I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
-- Syd BarrettSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.
-- Sylvia KristelSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'
-- Tom Cruise -
Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.
-- Wayne DyerSource : Wayne W. Dyer (2012). “21 Days to Master Success and Inner Peace”, p.86, Hay House, Inc
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Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!
-- Edwina Findley -
You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
-- W. Kamau Bell -
I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.
-- William Beckett -
It's my genius plan of avoiding any career momentum whatsoever. Definitely the pop-culture thing is something I've avoided in my act. It's just too transitory and ephemeral.
-- Christian FinneganSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.
-- Steve Redgrave