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Quotes About Avoidance

Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.
~ Sherman Alexie
Honestly? I don't want people around me for two reasons – they ultimately betray you or they die on you. Either way, you're screwed and you spend all your time obsessing on why you didn't see it coming. Or that you did something or didn't do something to cause it. No offense, but I don't like to be hurt and I'd rather just avoid it.(Ravyn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ever notice most people are major pains in the ass? I'd rather save myself the trouble of dealing with them and just avoid being around them to begin with. (Ravyn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yeah, but I don't want to be in pain, and I definitely don't want to suffer." – Nick "Well…The only way to avoid them is to die." – Death "Okay, let's change the topic now. Oh, look! A chicken." – Nick
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
So, Magellan, where are we going? (Danger) Away. I'm open to any location, so long as it doesn't involve returning to your house while Wart-Head is there.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life?
~ Natasha Leggero
Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.
~ Paulo Coelho
Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.
~ Penelope Wilton
I have not ever met Donald Trump, and I plan to go my entire life without ever actually having to breathe the same air that he breathes.
~ Reza Aslan
I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.
~ Umberto Eco
I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee.
~ Mark Helprin
Leave town, Henry. Leave before they trap you
~ John Fante
And, just as in the Roman Empire the rich had found ways of avoiding paying taxes, so also now the main burden fell upon the mass of the population. Thus, in Commynes's words, 'it was pitiful to see and learn about the poverty of the people.
~ John Gillingham
I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
~ John Green
La táctica del avestruz aplicada a la salud: mete la cabeza en un agujero e ignora lo evidente.
~ John Katzenbach
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.
~ John MacQuarrie
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
~ John Maynard Keynes
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Vincent, whom Kusanagi-Jones had managed to avoid for the duration of the voyage by first taking to cryo-damn the nightmares-and then restricting himself to the cramped comforts of his quarters…whom he could avoid no longer.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
~ Arthur Helps
There are all kinds of flight from responsibility. There is a flight into death, a flight into sickness, and finally a flight into stupidity.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
Aversion is the most evident reason for the runaway.
~ Ashima
Ik zoek de mensen zolang ze vreemden zijn; ik ontvlucht ze zodra ze dat niet meer zijn.
~ August Willemsen