Avoid Quotes

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
John Clare

Good, Best, Bad

I avoid crazy women.
Jeremy London

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
John B. S. Haldane

Humanity, May, Thought

One thing to avoid is trendy stuff, though - you gotta go timeless. Even if you want a little luxury in your life and you want to splurge on a Gucci bag, pick a great black one you can wear all the time.
NeNe Leakes

Life, Time, Great

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
Laurie Anderson

Trying, Behavior

The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.
John Cornyn

Health, Congress, Forces

Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.
Ray Comfort

Work, Wise, Human

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

Mistakes, Past, Made

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
Rachel Roy

Far, Following, Trends

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
Ford Frick

Last, Word, Sarcasm

I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will loosen up your muscles, which will help to avoid common strain injuries such as shin splints and ankle strains.
Laurieann Gibson

Help, Sure, Body

I believe it's extremely important to include some other type of fitness activity in your training, so cross training will help you to avoid injury when you are dancing.
Laurieann Gibson

Fitness, Help, Important

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.
Eliza Dushku

Job, Remember, Week

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow

Experience, Bad, Try

I don't want players coming in from the college level that are either trying to avoid a suspension, declare themselves ineligible on their own, hire an agent and decide, 'I'm going to enter into the NFL.'
Roger Goodell

Trying, College, Themselves

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
Angela Carter

Life, Woman, Far

You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.
Nicole Scherzinger

Try, Sometimes, Particular

It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too.
Mike Judge

Saying, Weird, Actually

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
Richard Whately

Another, Order, Follow

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
Mark Hyman

Health, Best, Place

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.
James Bovard

Easy, Lies, Fog

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.
James Bovard

Judge, Enemy, Why

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.
Compay Segundo

Life, Mistakes, Sleep

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

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'
Rosario Dawson

Long, Saying, Down

There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.
Toby Jones

Good, Philosophy, Reason

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
Elizabeth Berkley

Losing, Choices, Drastic

A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.
Matthew Lesko

Big, Knowing, Finding

Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.
Emmanuelle Chriqui

Easy, Paparazzi

The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.
Ryan White

Life, School, Daily

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