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Quotes About Avoided

There is no upside for the U.K. in Brexit. Only costs that can be avoided and advantages to be seized by remaining in Europe. No one should have to pay the Brexit tax.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
Judges, like most people, may be divided roughly into four classes: judges with neither head nor heart—they are to be avoided at all costs; judges with head but no heart—they are almost as bad; then judges with heart but no head—risky but better than the first two, and finally, those rare judges who possess both head and a heart. ROBERT TRAVER Anatomy of a Murder (1958) The
~ Unknown
Men of Athens, I have never yet studied medicine, nor sought to find a teacher among our physicians; for I have constantly avoided learning anything from the physicians, and even the appearance of having studied their art. Nevertheless I ask you to appoint me to the office of a physician, and I will endeavour to learn by experimenting on you.
~ Xenophon
Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's that? Socrates: Philosophy. Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here. Socrates: Where are they? Bertha: In the philosophy department. Socrates: Philosophy is not department. Bertha: Well, we have philosophers. Socrates: Are they dangerous? Bertha: Of course not. Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers.
~ Peter Kreeft
Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.
~ Cynthia Leitich Smith
All this is always for nothing, he says. Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided. But if Edward can defeat the queen, and imprison her along with her husband, then it will indeed be over.
~ Philippa Gregory
All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided.
~ Philippa Gregory
Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.
~ Raghuram Rajan
We have only to consider the prospect and implications of developed and actualized TELEPATHIC awareness to get the general drift of what is being avoided along these lines.
~ Unknown
There was a time when craft used to mean anything but the considered, stylish or academic. It was a term of derision. The 'craft fair' on the village green was to be avoided.
~ David Linley
If we harm civilians when it could reasonably have been avoided, and if we fail to fairly and promptly help the innocent victims, the local population will turn against us - and make the fight against violent extremists even more difficult.
~ Patrick Leahy
That's one explanation," I said. "But another is that you've hidden yourself from him so deliberately and for so long that he needs some time to take in this new part of the picture. He kissed you in the parking lot, poured his heart out to you, and you've avoided him ever since. And now he gets this letter. That is a lot to absorb.
~ Lori Gottlieb
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.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
~ Alphonse Karr
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.
~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
What are the options then? Immerse yourself in a regular job of work which will give you the illusion of solidity and safety through activity, so that you are prevented from ever having to address the real issues of your life...In this sense activity is the soul's worst enemy and should be avoided.
~ Unknown
East thus avoided the economic polarization between creditors and debtors that ended up imposing bondage on most of classical antiquity.
~ Michael Hudson
red meat that has been processed into bacon, bologna, hot dogs, sandwich meats, and other products with added salt is best avoided altogether.
~ Michael Moss
I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.
~ Michael Vick
A failed search, she declared, is a tragic defeat for all concerned, and should be avoided at all costs. "Finding your minister," she said, "takes nine months—a full gestation. By the time they're vetted and voted in, it's a whole year.
~ Michelle Huneven
Poverty is a disease that must be diagnosed and then completely avoided in all societies.
~ Unknown
To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.
~ Orrin Woodward
Sentient tomes are to be avoided at all costs. It's in the DMA agent handbook, which hasn't achieved self-awareness, at least as far as I knew.
~ Unknown