Quotes About Avoidance

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping ' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

If I feel anxious about the fact that I haven't started, I become even more reluctant to start, which just makes me more anxious.

You hate your destination so much you want to postpone showing up for as long as possible.

Being asleep is a great way to avoid being critical.

This Doesn't Count" Loophole: We tell ourselves that for some reason, this circumstance doesn't "count.

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...

How did you expect me to live without you? Once you've known happiness it's impossible to get used to not having it. I was desperate! I thought I should die! I'll tell you all about it, you'll see... And you-- you stayed away from me!' He had been carefully avoiding her for the past three years, out of that natural cowardice that characterises the stronger sex; and Emma went on, moving her head in winsome little gestures, more affectionate than an amorous cat.

Car, depuis trois ans, il l'avait soigneusement évitée par suite de cette lâcheté naturelle qui caractérise le sexe fort ; et Emma continuait avec des gestes mignons de tête, plus câline qu'une chatte amoureuse :

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. [ On Water ]

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

I said, "I try to open my mail at least once a year, but sometimes I neglect it.

Carter did not wish to meet a bhole, so

All he seeks from life is not to think. For some reason thought is very horrible to him, and anything which stirs the imagination he flees as a plague.

Defensive running strategies thus become an important part of your training plan. If you want to have a long running career, determine what activities most often cause you to become injured, then avoid them. This is particularly true when it comes to overuse injuries that result from what might be called training errors.

Elle vivait seule et travaillait plus dur que quiconque, évitait les contagions petites-bourgeoises: le doute de soi, le mépris des études, l'ennui.

Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

I don't like to risk - I'm actually not a tough guy at all, make no mistake about it, so I'm not going to do something that I'm scared of. So, if something looks dangerous, at the time I didn't think it was, because I'm the first person to cower away from a risk of injury if there seems to be one.

It's the worst feeling in the world - to lose in the first round at Sheffield and then have to go home - because it's such a long tournament, and it's hard to avoid it. It's on the TV all day every day, and if I lost, I didn't want to be anywhere near snooker.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

More often than not, CEOs are conflict-avoidant because their role is to define vision and strategy than it is to get into confrontations with negative and toxic people which they can't stand.

Travel tips: How to avoid carsickness, seasickness and airsickness... Be careful what you eat. And stay home.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.