Quotes About Avoidance

Why me? He said finally. Are you on some sort of mission to fuck up my life? I try my best to avoid you. You're doing a hell of a job. I honestly don't mean to cause you problems. You don't cause problems. An unpiloted vampire causes problems. You cause catastrophes.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.

I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I've always avoided politics because I didn't want to make commitments that would take me away from raising these children.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

If I think I'm going to get into trouble I always say that I'm sick.

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.

My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I can't get around.

I never should have done 'Celebrity Apprentice.' I didn't want to do it because I didn't want Donald Trump to say, 'You're fired.'

Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.

I know a little bit about handicapping. If the horse has an IV, you want to stay - away from it.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

Humans don't see what they don't want to see. No one wants to be put down. That's why people do nothing even when they do know something is happening.

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you dont want to face.

I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.