Quotes About Avoidance

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.     Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. They used to exchange books and periodicals; they would beat one another at chess, without saying a word.

Soy un hombre cobarde; no le dejé mi dirección, para eludir la angustia de esperar cartas.

Nothing reveals a poet's weakness like classical verse, and that's why it's so universally dodged.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

I avoid writing until I can't avoid it anymore. Until writing comes knocking at my door like a friend I've neglected.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it

We ward off love because it presents itself to us as a demand: to acknowledge another person's needs, and thus our own; to glimpse their mortality, and thus ours. We each have our own means of achieving this avoidance.

There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room

U]npleasant truths are hastily and nonchalantly brushed aside, as if by so doing the truth could be abolished.

The avoidance of pain - physical or psychic - is a dangerous mechanism, which can cause us to lose touch not just with our painful sensations but with ourselves.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

I'm very happy that Paul Ryan has decided to treat Donald Trump like a Zika mosquito: avoid contact, or you will be infected.

Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency.

Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do.

The best protection to virus is to stay away from the news.

He who would not go to hell, must not go to court. #Satyamevjayate

He who would not go to hell, must not go to court.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

the more you fight the uncomfortable sensations directly, the stronger they seem to grow. The more you run from panic, the faster it seems to chase you. The more you avoid panic-provoking situations, the more panic controls your life. If we place ourselves on guard, waiting and watching for the next signs of trouble, we are inviting panic to return sooner. How? By establishing a special relationship with panic, a relationship of opposites.

an unhappy person can never give happiness, so stay away from him.