Quotes About Avoid

To defeat Fortune, men must anticipate such evils before they arise, and take prudent steps to avoid them. When the waters have already risen, it is too late to build dikes and embankments.

T]he Romans, observing troubles from afar, always found remedies for them and never allowed them to develop in order to avoid a war, for they knew that war does not go away, but is merely deferred to the advantage of others.

in the long run a ruler must avoid being hated by his people and must always put their interests before those of the aristocracy; the people are so many, Machiavelli reflected, that power ultimately lies with them.

Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces

I suppose I won't see you for a while, so farewell, best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look

Or if, like her, they immersed themselves in trivialities in a frantic effort to avoid a yawning inner emptiness that sometimes threatened to swallow them whole.

We may say, vices wait on us in the course of our life as the landlords with whom we successively lodge, and if we traveled the road twice over, I doubt if our experience would make us avoid them.

Eve teasing," the sexual harassment and touching that women may suffer in public, was what my college friends traveled in groups to avoid.

The rule of progress is, take the path regardless of the obstacles while the rule of stagnation is, avoid the path with regard to the obstacles.

idea! Maybe your dreams are nightmares. Make a list of the things you are doing where you can avoid your worst

It's the right of every red-blooded American to avoid taxes, but not evade them.

We necessarily operate in an environment in which there's a great deal of uncertainty. In such an environment, it makes sense to use a risk-management approach to identify and avoid the big mistakes. That's one reason I favor a cautious approach.

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

BP cannot undo a settlement it negotiated and signed just to avoid its consequences.

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.

Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself...

Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.

try to avoid panic because it leads to chaos, which leads to accidents. You get hurt that way.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

one individual they did not want to encounter at that moment.