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Quotes About Avoidance

Saturday morning I vacuumed, dusted, folded laundry, repotted an ivy plant that had outgrown its clay pot months before—anything to avoid having to sit down again with those damn freshman papers.
~ Joanne Dobson
Me evitarás, creyendo que te evito? ¿Pisarás nuestra calle nuevamente? ¿Intuirás, cuando callo, por qué grito?
~ Joaquín Sabina
You have to stay away." "I'd rather not.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Pop didn't believe in discussing problems--'Just goin' out of your way to look for trouble,' was his answer to anything that looked like a serious question.
~ Ann Petry
Nobody likes to go near that chateau after dark.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.
~ Anne Gibbons
I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.
~ Tom Anderson
Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
~ Jaron Lanier
I've learned more and more to just protect myself and avoid things that'll hurt my feelings.
~ Camila Morrone
Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.
~ Manmohan Singh
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them
~ Evelyn Waugh
and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one and yet to avoid all eyes.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He doesn't want any trouble with ANYbody.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sex, maybe, friendship, yes, but love, no. If she ever felt love coming toward her, she would cross the street to the other side.
~ Fannie Flagg
Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the sun is enough to make me suffer, how then should I not suffer in the darkness of the endlessly overcast sky of my own life?
~ Fernando Pessoa
Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the sun is enough to make me suffer, how then should I not suffer in the darkness of the endlessly overcast sky of my own life? My isolation is not a search for happiness, which I do not have the heart to win, nor for peace, which one finds only when it will never more be lost; what I seek is sleep, extinction, a small surrender.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ah, l'orrore di morire! E trovare il mistero faccia a faccia senza poter evitarlo, senza potere...
~ Fernando Pessoa
Hablar sinceramente de ciertos temas serios implica el tono humorístico como único modo de evitar la solemne ridiculez.
~ Fernando Savater
There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I stay far away from political humor.
~ Anjelah Johnson
There's a reason why, outside of me dropping a few, people don't throw my way, man.
~ Ed Reed
I'm not a fighter. I don't like to get beat up.
~ Brett Gelman