Avoiding Quotes
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I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
Rebecca Hall
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Erica Jong
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We want to avoid creating this sort of inevitability that it's an all-or-nothing proposition that leads us down the path of a dead-end street. This package really does reflect, I believe, the more cautionary approach.
Olympia Snowe
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
Lois McMaster
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty.
George Washington
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All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
Gautama Buddha
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
Francis Bacon
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I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.
Sarah Dessen
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Arthur Helps
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I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
Syd Barrett
Pink Floyd
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..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.
George Washington
