Avoiding Quotes

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

You probably have started losing touch with humility when your friends start avoiding you without telling you why.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.

These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

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.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, or in the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.

Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.

Put simply, Clean Eating is avoiding all processed food, relying on fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains rather than prepackaged or fast food.

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.