Quotes About Avoidance

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.

The one thing I didn't want to do was a show about the White House. I was too close to it.

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.

The reason I haven't got an agent is so that no one can contact me to offer me a film part. In case I'm tempted to do something I'll regret later.

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

People tend to keep their distance.

I avoid tea and especially coffee as it tends to give me anxiety.

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

All of my life, when things got too difficult, I folded up the tent and went to bed. I couldn't stand a challenge... I was terrified of confrontation. I was very laid-back, and just wouldn't get involved or fight back.

I hate bags. I never carry a bag. I am terrified of bags. I don't want to have to be responsible for that many things at one time.

The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a shortlived state of autosuggestion. Love was a state which a wise man would prudently avoid.

We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.

Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine. I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes. I understand. I am the same about porcupines.

Much insight into himself could have been gained from contemplation of these things, but Wintrow reined his mind away from it. Perhaps he did not want to know himself quite that well." p. 543

The love you needed was the kind best avoided.