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Quotes About Avoidance

Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. I did so then, and finally
~ Elena Ferrante
Studieren galt als ein Trick der pfiffigsten jungen Leute zur Vermeidung harter Arbeit.
~ Elena Ferrante
and my ego gladly avoids leaning out the window.
~ Elena Ferrante
Der Künstler geht dem bitteren Schenkeldruck der Wahrheit wie dem der Regel gern aus dem Weg.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.
~ Anthony Liccione
A]voidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioural disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships.
~ Anthony Storr
Life feels good to a person who could avoid watching news channels, better if sees it never and the best when neither ever watches it nor meets those people who see & discuss often news topics & politics.
~ Anuj Somany
The best way to avoid any topic to even discuss is to jointly create ruckus.
~ Anuj Somany
Det begynte altså med medisinskapet hjemme og Arzfelds Ritalin – og fortsatte med de samme og andre jeg fikk tak i – piller for oppstemthet, sovepiller, «selskapspiller», neddempende, maxiton, sjøsyketabletter og barbitus – samme faen – begge veier – alt gikk ned. Jeg ville være alle andre steder enn i virkeligheten – den ble for sterk.
~ Arild Nyquist
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing
~ Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
~ Aristotle
He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
~ Aristotle
There are some things we run after and it turns out that we run in vain. Then there are things we don't pursue, and those are the things that escape us.
~ Arnošt Lustig
I don't go on Reddit, because I know that'll be quicksand and I won't be able to get out.
~ Ross Duffer
I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.
~ Linton Kwesi Johnson
Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.
~ Rutger Bregman
I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.
~ Kevin Gates
Not to say that he put me through anything traumatizing, but I think just my dad has always had a short fuse. I always wanted to do my best just so I wouldn't have to deal with that.
~ Shawn Porter
I don't know how much of the 'casting couch' exists in the industry, as I've not seen it myself. I'm glad that I've not had to.
~ Kriti Sanon
It's glorious to get all your food shopping without having to set foot in Tesco.
~ Roger Allam
And again, there are those who sit in their swamp and speak thus from the rushes: 'Virtue - that means to sit quietly in the swamp. We bite nobody and avoid him who wants to bite: and in everything we hold the opinion that is given us.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
~ Aristotle
I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
I can't remember a time when I stepped into an airport or train station without wishing I were somewhere else, doing almost anything else. Just thinking about traveling gives me the willies. Traveling and dyslexia don't really get along.
~ Philip Schultz