Quotes About Avoidance

I have always been running away from dance numbers. That's been my problem.

Who wants to get sacked? Not me.

It would be a tough fight for either Scott Quigg and Carl Frampton against Rigondeaux. He's too good for his own good though and that's why he's been avoided.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.

I've always been resistant to parties and schmoozing.

I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

Fin looked at him squarely. "Sometimes there are things about yourself that you just don't want to talk about." "Why?" "Because talking about them makes you think about them, and thinking about them hurts

We numb our pain through denial, blaming, rationalizations, addictions, and avoidance.

We view conflict as a sign that something is wrong, so we do whatever we can to avoid it. We prefer to ignore difficult issues and settle for a false peace, hoping our difficulties will somehow disappear on their own. They don't.

We don't become mature human beings by getting lucky or cleverly circumventing loss, and certainly not by avoidance and distraction. Learn to lament. Learn this lamentation. We're mortals, after all. We and everyone around are scheduled for death (mortis). Get used to it. Take up your cross. It prepares us and those around us for resurrection. — Eugene Peterson

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

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The avoidance of reality has pervaded our language and even the way we understand what's happening around us, as the late comedian George Carlin pointed out. People have invented a 'soft language' to insulate themselves from the truth, he said, 'toilet paper became bathroom tissue … The [garbage] dump became a landfill … Partly cloudy became partly sunny.

La sabiduria consiste en saber cuando evitar al perfeccion

Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.

There are so many ways of escaping from that which one fears, and not the least of these is hatred.

I say to myself: Basically, what's new? Don't we already spend most of our time avoiding each other? Missing each other? I smile at the double meaning—an unsightly, tragic smile, of course.

And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)

My mother is getting up there in age, and sometimes I go visit her in Florida. I cook for all of her friends. Sometimes I have to avoid the table because I do not want to hear what they're talking about.