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

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
Anita Desai

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.
Julio Iglesias

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
Quintus Tullius Cicero

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

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.
David Coverdale

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Ivan Pavlov

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.
Amanda Seyfried

One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Luc de Clapiers

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
Mason Cooley

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.
Doug Coupland

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.
John Glenn

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Laurence J. Peter

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston

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

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
Hideki Tojo

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.
Helena Bonham Carter

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