Quotes About Avoidance

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.

I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.

I've never been ice skating, ever. I'm traumatized by the idea of it.

I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

It's heartbreaking to see how some people go through their entire lives held captive by debilitating fears. When you peel back all the layers of self-protection that cover up these destructive fears, you'll often find one or two significant events at the core. These events may not even seem all that terrifying to the casual observer, but they were just scary enough to start tripping the dominoes, causing the person to erect walls of avoidance.

Sticking one's head in the sand is a deep human impulse. Like when you feel some kind of bump or growth on the back of your neck, and your heart jumps, because, Christ, that could be something bad, I should see a doctor right away. But then you don't, because it's too scary, and what if they do find something, and...and besides: maybe it will just go away !

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

are we just avoiding our one true destiny when we do that, averting our glance from Philip Larkin who waits for us in an undertaker's coat?

Alerg?m f?r? încetare spre pr?pastie dup? ce am aÅŸezat ceva în faÅ£a noastr? pentru a ne împiedica s? o vedem.

Being unable to overcome death, misery, and uncertainty, men have agreed, in order to be happy, not to think about them.

The Genovese story has been used to highlight the fact that for many it is preferable to avoid controversy than to step forward and attempt to do the right thing.

Pence was staying out of the way. He didn't want to be tweeted about or called an idiot.

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep, when I was supposed to speak, I was silent; when a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.

He sighed. She was a mistake in every sense. She made herself available once, and I make it a rule to avoid overly eager women a second time. And that doesn't make you sound like an asshole at all.

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

I'd always spoil what I did so nobody would ask me to do it again.

No place of grace for those who avoid the face No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the voice

Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus, perhaps because it was difficult & rare, was more on greeting people?

Spending the next nine hours with a crying woman wal real close to the top of his Avoid at All Costs list right under untimely death and a desk job.