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Quotes About Avoid

My husband's a very good baker. He does all the baking at home - if there is any - because I'm a coeliac. I tend to avoid stuff like that, I don't even buy it.
~ Caroline Quentin
The only place I do avoid is Trafalgar Square on New Year's Eve. I saw in the New Year there once - it was the most terrifying experience of my life.
~ Arlene Phillips
It's an old tradition or perhaps a superstition. Never call something by its true name if you wish to avoid calling its attention to you. Perhaps
~ Robin Hobb
For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the aged would come with their wisdom and slowness of thought, and other plans would be made, and there would be, at least, delay.
~ Lord Dunsany
Avoid any enclosed space where more than three people are wearing turtlenecks.
~ Ron Koertge
And the desire to prevent all misunderstanding about an enterprise one is about to undertake is a thing that could occur only to a youth. There is nothing that so easily gets beyond one's control and so easily becomes misunderstood, as a misunderstanding. Even if one were to undertake nothing more than merely to avoid misunderstanding – then in that case one would presumably become the most thoroughly misunderstood of all men.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.
~ Bill Belichick
If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!
~ Garrison Wynn
I'd say the film to avoid is a director's second film, particularly if his first film was a big success. The second film is where you've really needed to have learned something.
~ John Hurt
When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it." "I
~ Alexandre Dumas
Tienen algunas cosas tal aire de imposibles, que no se nos ocurre la idea de intentarlas, y hasta las evitamos instintivamente.
~ Alexandre Dumas
When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
love is like a train that will keep going at full speed whether you like it or not, so you may as well enjoy the ride. If you try to avoid it, you'll just make everything worse.
~ Alice Hoffman
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
~ Alice Walker
It was better not to mention things unless you were sure of the right language. Every day brought new wrong words to avoid. New ideas at odds with the Great Change. Everyone was free to say what they wanted now, of course. You just had to be careful in case it got you hanged.
~ Joe Abercrombie
What he'd thought of as a personal strength---he was happy to know about her only what she wanted him to know---was something more like selfishness. A childish willingness to remain in the dark, to avoid distressing conversations, upsetting truths. He had feared her secrets---or, more specifically, the emotional entanglements that might come with knowing them.
~ Joe Hill
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
~ Ayn Rand
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
~ E. B. White
Since she could not unravel the tangle, she must take care not to re-enter it.
~ E. M. Forster
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
~ Edgar Winter
Abide not with dualism, Carefully avoid pursuing it; As soon as you have right and wrong, Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)
~ Edward Conze
Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate it.
~ Anonymous
I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
~ Anonymous
In this way he would avoid the humiliation of falling into Caesar's hands and, worse, having to endure a pardon.
~ Anthony Everitt