Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
Annie Dillard

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.
Charles Curtis

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
Mae West

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Dag Hammarskjold

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
Francis Quarles

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
Nat Turner

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Konrad Adenauer

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.
Greta Scacchi

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
Hedy Lamarr

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
Dean Koontz

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
John Steinbeck

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.
Robert Teeter

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.
Leigh Steinberg

I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all.
Guy Green

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Albrecht Durer

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
Martin Van Buren