Quotes About Avoidance

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

I love Cee Lo, but I avoid him when he's holding that smelly cat.

Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays.

Honestly, I try to stay away from the famous chicks and L.A. girls in general.

I'm not much of a horror fan. When it comes to ghost stuff and demon stuff, I can't watch that.

I don't like watching horror films. I actually don't. I don't watch horror films.

I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.

I don't watch horror films at all and if at all I see, then my mother gets really bugged. She switches off the television and tells me not to destroy her sleep and happiness.

Good luck dragging me into a horror movie! I get so scared. It's an overactive imagination or something.

I'm not good at things like that: haircuts or oil changes or dentist visits. When I moved into my bungalow, I spent the first three months swaddled in blankets because I couldn't deal with getting the gas turned on. It's been turned off three times in the past few years, because sometimes I can't quite bring myself to write a check. I have trouble maintaining.

you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You've always gone the easy way. Tell Mom you went to baseball practice when you really quit the team; tell Mom you went to church when you were at a movie. It's some weird compulsion.

My dad was a man of infinite varieties of bitterness, rage, distaste. In my lifelong struggle to avoid becoming him, I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all.

Normally, Richard was the kind of guy I disliked, someone born and raised plush: looks, charm, smarts, probably money. These men were never very interesting to me; they had no edges, and they were usually cowards. They instinctively fled any situation that might cause them embarrassment or awkwardness.

Procrastination is your way of avoiding your fantasy of reality.

Putting things off or not finishing is behavior that many of us adopt to avoid uncomfortable feelings of pain, guilt, shame, anxiety, or fear. Procrastinators

An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.

How hard do we work to blind ourselves to things that we don't want to see?

horrible scenes with me before and seemed okay. I would ask him, but I don't want to see another

She couldn't face what was really happening. Routine brought comfort.

I've got issues of my own—things in my past I'd rather not go back to. Things I won't go back to.

In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Never stand in the middle of two people having a fight, because you'll always come off worse.

There's nothing worse than doing something you really don't enjoy.