Avoided Quotes

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.

Consider this on your birthday You've got life's struggle beaten For 60 years you've ate And avoided being eaten

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

I hated the mirror and avoided it as much as I could. A glimpse would only remind me: I'll never be normal again.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

A lot of fights in my life have been avoided through confidence and demeanor, so that's pretty masculine also.

If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.

What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.