Quotes About Avoidance

I didn't want to get to know her very well, and didn't want to be bridging any silences with our eyes.

El tema, escribió él, es el dolor. Cuánto acumulo, cuánto esquivo.

If we identify having fun with happiness, we will identify the opposite of fun, pain, with unhappiness. However, because no happiness is possible without pain, the attempt always to avoid it by having fun as much as possible makes happiness impossible

No queríamos pensar, ¿sabes? Y es fácil no hacerlo. Durante un tiempo.

I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

There isn't a fight that I'm in that I'm not asking the question, 'What could we have done to avoid this?' Or, 'What can we do to avoid this in the future in terms of the kinds of things that we see?'

I've avoided success artfully.

In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!

I realized that, for me, travel for work - I'm not speaking so much about travel for pleasure - had actually become a way of avoiding life.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

I've been in this position before when you never lose, when your record is clear, people are avoiding you.

I wouldn't say that I'm the most avoided man in boxing, but a few guys might avoid me in the middleweight division.

Dodge all the suckas.

It's very hard to get inside Donald Trump's brain, and I don't want to try.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

I don't want to engage in politics; it's too hot.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.