Avoided Quotes (page 5)

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• learning
• fighting
• avoiding

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them. Tim Robbins

• war
• avoiding
• wanted

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

• avoiding
• my everything
• label

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself. Boyd Rice

• avoiding
• temptation
• willingly

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. Joey Adams

• determination
• avoiding
• prayer

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do...How vigilant we are! determined not live by faith if we can avoid it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly say our prayers and commit ourselves to uncertainties. Henry David Thoreau

• learning
• avoiding
• years

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

• avoiding
• wellness
• trouble

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes. Paul Auster

• brainly
• family
• avoiding

I am filthy. I am riddled with lice. Hogs, when they look at me, vomit. My skin is encrusted with the scabs and scales of leprosy, and covered with yellow pus.[...] A family of toads has taken up residence in my left armpit and, when one of them moves, it tickles. Mind one of them does not escape and come and scratch the inside of your ear with its mouth; for it would then be able to enter your brain. In my right armpit there is a chameleon which is perpetually chasing them, to avoid starving... Comte de Lautreamont

• waiting
• thoughts
• future

It was as though they were intentionally stepping nearer to their graves. As he sat waiting on the edge of the bed he thought again of the cellars of the Ministry of Love. It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one's consciousness. There it lay, fixed in future time, preceding death as surely as 99 precedes 100. One could not avoid it, but one could perhaps postpone it: and yet instead, every now and again, by a conscious, willful act, one chose to shorten the interval... George Orwell

• life
• mistake
• avoiding

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it... Charles M. Schulz

• home
• experience
• life

Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves for a long period of time or for good, when the beloved friend departs to another country or dies? the pain of the leaving can tear us apart. Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of... Henri Nouwen

• road
• avoiding
• welcome

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole. Nora Roberts

• good
• good luck
• luck

Good luck tended to avoid me. Stephenie Meyer

• avoiding
• together
• old

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits. Tom Waits

• avoiding
• world
• heads

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth. Radclyffe Hall