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Quotes About Avoidance

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
~ Paul Auster
I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.
~ Rebecca Eaton
I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.
~ Adam Duritz
...no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.
~ Courtney Summers
If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.
~ Dan Brown
A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either
~ Demetri Martin
Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question - 'How is the food?'
~ Emraan Hashmi
You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.
~ Frederick Lenz
She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, the old scar tissue the only place on him unclaimed by Fener, but the paths the sprites took to those stumps touched not a single tattooed line. The flies dance a dance of avoidance - but for all that, they were eager to dance.
~ Steven Erikson
Kruppe nodded. "Kruppe is no fool, K'rul. He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs.
~ Steven Erikson
He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs.
~ Steven Erikson
Evading responsibility was a proclivity of the human species, it seemed.
~ Steven Erikson
Fear prevents engagement; lack of engagement builds into a habit of avoidance; and pretty soon it's just your family stuck inside four walls, where perhaps the biggest obstacle of all—technology—abounds. Even if you recognize that it might not be good for them to be in their
~ Steven Rinella
Fear prevents engagement; lack of engagement builds into a habit of avoidance; and pretty soon it's just your family stuck inside four walls, where perhaps the biggest obstacle of all—technology—abounds.
~ Steven Rinella
From what I can gather, there's quite a lot you don't like talking about!
~ Storm Constantine
Since most of us are products of a culture and era where nobody likes to discuss death in case it encourages her to visit,
~ Sue Black
And, December 24, he collapsed, and three days later he lost consciousness. His weeks of recovery were not helped by his mother nagging him to keep up his Greek. He was beginning to admit to his friends that he did not like his mother and his sister's voice grated on his nerves. He was always ill when he was with them. He avoided quarrels and conflict; he felt he knew how to handle them but it did not agree with him to have to do so.
~ Sue Prideaux
The wise warrior avoids the battle.
~ Sun Tzu
When fiction started on TV, the daily soap splurge happened and I knew that I would not get caught in a daily soap.
~ Javed Jaffrey
I am worst when it comes to social media.
~ Barun Sobti
Yet exactly what constitutes privilege and disadvantage can be counterintuitive: There is no metric to take into account the casual racism that I had to navigate in my neighborhood, a difficulty I was keenly aware friends of mine on the more socially cohesive and nurturing black side of town were often able to avoid.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
I can't go out socially. I never go to soap awards now. I don't recognize people I know and they would think that I was snubbing them.
~ June Brown
No problem in the history of humankind has ever gotten solved by evading it.
~ Jemele Hill