Avoid Quotes

• Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Acting
  • Consider
  • Foolishness

• 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
  • Reality
  • Movement
  • Avoid

• You've got to avoid situations that make you uncomfortable.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Uncomfortable
  • Avoid
  • Situations

• In my professional life I do not have to like everyone, but when I feel negative energy with someone I try and avoid that person.

  

  Mario Mandzukic
  • Life
  • Negative
  • Avoid

• I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

  

  Socrates
  • Fear
  • Know
  • Never

• You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

  

  Caspar David Friedrich
  • Society
  • Hate
  • Misanthrope

• Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Weapons
  • Tools
  • Avoid

• To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.

  

  Yagyu Munenori
  • Man
  • Difficult
  • Easy

• 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
  • Hope
  • Grief
  • Avoid

• 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
  • Away
  • Cleaning
  • Bacteria

• Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.

  

  Confucius
  • Expect
  • Avoid
  • Resentments

• Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Avoid

• 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
  • Judge
  • Ignorance
  • Mirror

• 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
  • Profession
  • Rise
  • Rituals

• 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
  • Companies
  • Institutions
  • Editor

• 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
  • Ball
  • Club
  • Grass

• 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
  • Error
  • Avoid
  • Own up

• Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.

  

  Rumi
  • See
  • Cannot
  • Pit

• That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

  

  Nazim Hikmet
  • Surrender
  • Falling
  • Captives

• 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
  • Liberty
  • Maturity
  • Depended

• We cannot be afraid to touch it. We do have to examine new mechanisms like luxury taxes and in particular sporting criteria like squad limitations and fair transfer rules, to avoid player hoarding.

  

  Aleksander Ceferin
  • Taxes
  • Examine
  • Hoarding

• The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Way
  • Evil
  • Avoid

• Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

  

  Nichiren
  • Problems
  • Disturb
  • Hardships

• 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
  • Nature
  • Change
  • Political Parties

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