Avoided Quotes

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.

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

Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.

Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

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.

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.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

What is deferred is not avoided.

Fast movement during exercise does not produce fast muscles, or strong muscles, or large muscles, it produces only one thing, a thing to be avoided, it produces injuries.

Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

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.

Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons.

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

In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

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.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.

I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour [in my children]: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.

So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet).

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.