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Avoidance Quotes (page 32)

Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it; some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and then there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of. Julian Barnes
I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock. E. L. Konigsburg
The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal. Seth Godin
John Grisham quote: "It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is..."
It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting. John Grisham
Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex... Gustave Flaubert
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. Barack Obama
Neil Gaiman quote: "Vengeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise..."
Vengeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. Neil Gaiman
Dean Koontz quote: "I avoid contemporary TV...politics...art: all too frantic,..."
I avoid contemporary TV...politics...art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter. Dean Koontz
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. All have been, or at least all have believed themselves to be, in danger from the pursuit of some one they wished to avoid; and all have been anxious for the attentions of someone they wished to please. Jane Austen
The names we use to describe personality traits - such as extrovert, high achiever, or paranoid - refer to the specific patterns people have used to structure their attantion. At the same party, the extrovert will seek out and enjoy interactions with others, the high achiever will look for useful business conacts, and the paranoid will be on guard for signs of danger he must avoid. Attention can be invested in innumerable ways, ways that can make life eihther rich or miserable. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote: "Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than..."
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
James Baldwin quote: "It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people,..."
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror. James Baldwin
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this? Soren Kierkegaard
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. John Keats
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary. Guy de Maupassant

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