Quotes About Avoidance

Why be an ostrich?

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance

She was keeping out of the quarrel.

ostrich policy.

Don't get me wrong: grief sucks, it really does. Unfortunately, though, avoiding it robs us of life, of the now, of a sense of living spirit.

Your voice is sad and your hands are slow, And your eye meeting mine turns away.

You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know.

There's a terrible temptation to look at only what you want to, and carefully avoid seeing anything else.

and only by the coldest act of will did I avoid falling into a black pit of grief, so black that it would blind me to anything and everything.

I'm here to learn. And what you have taught me is to avoid love as long as possible.

The 'busy' thing isn't a commitment, it's an evasion.

Or, more accurately, spend all day trying to avoid making a mistake? These are very different things. Defect-free is what people are often in search of. Meeting spec. Blameless.

Risk, to some, is a bad thing, because risk brings with it the possibility of failure. It might be only a temporary failure, but that doesn't matter so much if the very thought of it shuts you down. So, for some, risk comes to equal failure (take enough risks and sooner or later, you will fail). Risk is avoided because we've been trained to avoid failure.

Desire for gain versus avoidance of loss.

It wasn't a question of luck, the way some folks will tell you; they will tell you it's back luck to be near the wounded. It was just that we didn't want to be close to them any longer than it took to run past, the way you wouldn't want to be near someone who had something catching, like smallpox