Avoid Quotes
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Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.
Conan O'Brien
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
Victor Hugo
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Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.
Lao Tzu
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That probably is one of the policies we would like to avoid.
Edward Lazear
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Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
Pythagoras
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Because of the grass and open face, I take one more club for shots from the rough, unless the ball is sitting on top of dry grass. Then, I use more loft and swing softer, trying to hit it about 70 percent to avoid a flyer over the green.
Ernie Els
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I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.
Socrates
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No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.
Amber Hollibaugh
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Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
Lao Tzu
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Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.
Eli Attie
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Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.
Confucius
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To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.
Yagyu Munenori
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An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.
Anthony Trollope
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If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.
Johnny Depp
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Members of the non-ruling class who want to rise in their profession through sheer competence try at once to avoid the ruling class’s rituals while guarding against infringing its prejudices. Averse to wheedling, they tend to think that exams should play a major role in getting or advance in jobs, that records of performance—including academic ones—should be matters of public record [common in other countries like France and India], and that professional disputes should be settled by open argument.
Angelo Codevilla
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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
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The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
Nazim Hikmet
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The Founders believed that liberty depended on persons with the maturity to avoid both radical self-assertion and a timid reliance on the state.
Charles J. Chaput
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If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.
Norm MacDonald
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If eyes were windows to the soul, hers had been bricked up to avoid taxation.
Courtney Milan
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Spin is a tricky thing. When you're trying to avoid it - say, on a tee shot, where sidespin puts you in the trees - it's easy to make it happen.
Ernie Els
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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
Rumi
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It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.
Anthony Trollope