Quotes About Avoid

Don't ever flirt with sin.

asymmetric intensity of the motives to avoid losses and to achieve gains shows up almost everywhere.

Bonpland gli chiese quando mai dormisse. Se posso evitarlo, rispose Humboldt, mai.

He had merely been taking refuge in the outward adventure in order to avoid the clash and tension of the adventure proceeding inexorably within.

Rather we must seek out9 the good things peculiar to the good, and give the widest berth to the evils peculiar to evil men.

They all seemed to be avoiding each other—and not just to be polite. They seemed to take obvious measures to stay clear of anyone else.

Mr. Lecky had proceeded quickly for several moments before he drew up, shocked. A few more steps and he might have stumbled on his idiot, for the stairs he had been approaching were the front stairs to the silverware department, which he wished to avoid. Shaken by this unpleasant mistake, he re-directed himself, turning back down the center of the dark floor. Certainly he did not want to see the corpse; the corpse could not very well want to see him.

Actually, she had now made it extremely likely that, if Germany developed any expansionist tendencies at all, the French would be dragged into another war—exactly what the alliances were all supposed to avoid.

He lives like a fugitive to avoid becoming a hired killer in Uncle Sams Army.

The lesson, to avoid the hot tips of the insiders with a vengeance, is passed along fervently

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

A more robust approach to global warming is needed if we are to avoid catastrophe. Unlike the recent financial crisis, there is no bailout option for the earth's climate.

Predictions of a disappearing political center are a warning of a bleak future that we can avoid only by adhering to our nation's founding principles.

Obviously, having served in wars myself, I'm eager to do everything possible to avoid them, but our military capability vis-a-vis a country like Iran is a major source of leverage in any negotiation that we should never, ever give up.

It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better people, not better rifles - to win wars, and mainly to avoid them.

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.

I will see you both in Goredd, then, when I clasp your hands across the smoking ashes of my enemies." "Isn't that what you were trying to avoid by sneaking up the Omiga?" Kiggs said. The Comonot considered. "Yes, but I like the sound of those words. Interesting.

Jesus did not look with much favour upon outward form, ceremony, or with much favour upon formulated, or formal religion; and he somehow or other seemed to avoid the company of those who did.

With the murder of Cornstalk, who had tried so hard to avoid war, most of the Shawnee joined the British and the western tribes to fight against white Americans.

You can't catch me outside.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.