Quotes About Avoidance

When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

I'll never be in a dunk contest again. I don't ever want to be a part of it.

Sometimes as a player you do not want to get into a controversy.

I don't like to get involved in controversial things.

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

I avoid conflict - like, any conflict - at all costs. I hate it. Even at a restaurant, if I get the wrong order, I'll just eat it anyway because I don't want to make an issue.

I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.

I don't like going out where it's really, really crowded.

I don't like the crowds, I don't like to get out of the house if I don't have to.

I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

I never read tabloids, I never buy books or go on Perez Hilton, and I never ever watch the news.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

People are often quite lazy. We like taking the easy way out - we like handing over responsibility, we like being offered shortcuts that mean we don't have to think.

During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.

I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

I played minigolf once, but the windmill scared me. I try to avoid excitement these days.

Run from disaster rather than be caught by it. Homer (The Iliad)

what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don't' feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they're avoiding.

Orte, wo keine Katzen leben wollen, sollte man meiden, Havald

The meeting introduced me- or, perhaps no introduction was necessary- to the awful collision between the silent, unfeeling dead and immensity of feeling they generate in the living. I left the room with relief, making a mental note to avoid the bereaved at all costs and stick to the safe world inhabited by the dead, with its facts, its measurements, its certainties. In their universe, there was a complete absence of emotion. Not to mention its ugly sister, pain.

but you say the same thing every time. Let's not talk about it, let's just not talk.