Quotes About Avoidance

Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.

I don't like to get involved in conflict.

I don't like conflict.

I don't like confrontation.

I'm so afraid of confrontation.

Rod's not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.

I hate confrontations.

I don't like confrontation; I just like to sing.

Zimbabweans, I've come to believe, we are very passive-aggressive people. We don't like conflict; we don't like confrontation, so we find all sorts of ways of avoiding that conflict and confrontation. We are not allowed to talk about bad things that go on in families.

Personally, I've never liked confrontation.

I really do not like confrontation. I will kind of do anything to avoid it.

Miriam says that sometimes, when we don't want to 'look hard at our behavior,' we look hard at everything else instead...

But all she wanted to do was lie in bed, eat Kraft macaroni and cheese, and hide from the alligators.

Kafka knew precisely what he did *not* want: he did not even consider becoming an attorney or using his linguistic gifts to earn a living. Having his afternoons free was more important to him than the prospects of bourgeois prosperity [...] He often appeared passive and overly despondent, yet he stuck to his avoidance schemes even when they posed critical challenges to his psyche. It was as though he were carrying a compass that pointed out to him nothing but the *wrong* direction

Nature teaches me that so many other bodies exist around mine of which some are to be avoided, some sought after.

What most people call spontaneous recall usually involves memories that have been denied, not repressed. The survivor has always been aware that the sexual abuse happened, but he or she has studiously avoided thinking about it. A catalyst sets the memory process in motion, but the essential factor in the memory surfacing is the readiness of the survivor to deal with the reality of abuse.

I decided that the only way to keep feminine intuition from sneaking through an occasional lucky stab was to stay away from women altogether, which wasn't practical.

though it is a form of intimacy I don't care for, since I have a tendency to fight shy of bonds.

His whole life changed because he changed from focusing on what he did not want, what he was afraid of, what he wanted to avoid, to focusing on what he did want. Robert's

She was doing what the English did. When anything embarrassing or emotional threatened to come up, one discussed the weather. Always a safe topic.

I recall the words of Charles Darwin in his Autobiography. 'I rejoice that I have avoided controversies, and this I owe to Charles Lyell,* who…strongly advised me never to get entangled in a controversy, as it rarely did any good and caused a miserable loss of time and temper.

I meant to do my work today but . . .

But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them.

The phone rings, but she doesn't pick up. It's one of three men whose beliefs about her logistics she can no longer keep straight.