Quotes About Avoidance

People go to the movies instead of moving.

I am running away but I prefer to call it a strategic retreat.

You shouldn't ask questions when you know at heart you'd prefer not to hear the answers.

I seem to be allergic to diligence

Don't bring up the Beyonder any more than necessary.

Das ist so ziemlich alles außer Geschirrspülen.

Interviews are my least favorite thing to do.

In Israel, I don't do any interviews at all. I don't want to be a celebrity in Israel.

I hate giving interviews.

If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.

I never want to go to jail. Never, ever.

I don't see scary movies. I've never seen 'The Exorcist' or 'Jaws'.

Two things I have never done and never plan to do are catch Coronavirus or meet Jelly Nutella in person.

There's always this joke that I say in Israel: people don't really have discussions; they just try to convince the other people that they are wrong or they are right - they just try to impose their opinion on the others. Sometimes I think it's easier to avoid talking about things and just make music.

En el horizonte lo que se vislumbra es el fascismo y la única forma de evitarlo, de caer en esas arenas movedizas, es recuperando el humanismo.

Eso fue el románico: una gracia que se evitaba a sí misma.

I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it?

The sale would be treated as a transfer, merely part of a complex financing. Banamex's 20 percent ownership of the Bermuda company would allow it to avoid recognizing a sale, and Banamex could "sell" 80 percent of its Ajustabonos without generating the accounting loss it had feared.

And believe me, you don't want to be around Migraine Mom. I strongly recommend avoiding that subject.

Love of what is good and useful, and hatred of what is ugly or evil and harmful are the conditions for success. Bashfulness (hayâ, corresponding to Greek aidôs) and the avoidance of bad company and of sloth are among the qualities strongly recommended for inculcation in the young.

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

Wouldn't it be better to avoid the thrust of the dagger which, I knew, with the atavistic insight of a Jewish child, would in a few minutes be plunged into my heart?

No. We never have read a line of Tolstoy. We studiously avoid doing so.

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.