Avoid Quotes
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One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
Abraham Lincoln
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I quickly get interested in people but just as quickly avoid them when they expect to be my only friends. I ams ure i hurt many people in that way.
Gerda Weissmann Klein
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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
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One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.
Walther Nernst
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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
Jane Austen
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I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.
Georgie Fame
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When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.
Confucius
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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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I try to avoid political ties.
Rick Santelli
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The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.
Andrew Harvey
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A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.
Steve McConnell
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
Francis Crick
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If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.
Isaac of Nineveh
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Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!
Lao Tzu
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Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
Socrates
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If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.
Norm MacDonald
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All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them.
Ben Yagoda
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If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.
Michael East
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Sometimes it can be really exciting, but I avoid the blank page now. What I do is hand write everything. When you're hand writing, there's never a blank page, really. There's so much you can do with that.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage...
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Joey Adams
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When you’re constantly taking care of the emotions of others, you avoid having to face your own.
Amy Chan
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I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.
Allan Kaprow