Avoid Quotes

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
Sylvester Stallone

Great, Knowledge, Pain

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz

Courage, Fool, Nothing

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
Frank Herbert

Same, Away, Between

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.
Steven Brust

Trust, Fear, Fashion

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
Mortimer Adler

Mind, Try, Making

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

Through, Poverty, Places

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti

Nothing, Him, Strange

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
Maria Montessori

Life, Help, Act

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.
Rick Santorum

Work, School, Children

Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives.
Jonathan Kozol

Before, Cannot, Year

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
Mary Astell

Pain, Greatest, May

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.
Linus Torvalds

Try, Deal, Plans

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end.' Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.
Tim Allen

Trust, End, Woman

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.
John Sununu

Discipline, Wishing, Cage

I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
Haile Gebrselassie

Road, Running, Injuries

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.
Charlie Kaufman

Try, Tell, Lives

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
Ivan Goncharov

Making, Possible, Among

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
Walter Isaacson

Change, Care, Others

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
Alton Brown

Science, Enough, Guy

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
Hugh Laurie

Life, Hope, Children

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
Orson Scott Card

Education, Knowledge, Stupid

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Try, Weakness, Potato

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

Mistakes, May, Might

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
Murray Walker

Through, Wrong, Himself

I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.
Cat Cora

Food, Done, After

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus

Solitude, Ideal, Pick

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
Peter O'Toole

Children, Tell, Theatre

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
Beth Ditto

Trying, Friends, Learned

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
Damien Hirst

Life, Death, Society

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
Damien Hirst

Death, Try, Big

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