Quotes About Avoidance

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

She had to remember not to look at him when he smiled like that.

I don't do relationships because I don't want to love and lose myself.

Show me what you've written, " I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

We want to avoid competition; and yet its the competition that protects us in various forms.

A evita ridicolul înseamn? a refuza singura ÅŸans? de nemurire.

Aware of my own insignificance, I had at least managed for the time being to avoid anything that might have been considered shameful or unbecoming; yet here I was, tasting the bitterness of life to the very full.

I'd had a couple of spectacular mishaps in the magic department recently, so I didn't like to mess with actual humans anymore, not if I could help it.

All we have to do is keep on denying how frightened we actually are. And then, bit by bit, we will have arrived at the place we most fear, the thing from which we have been averting our eyes. No additional effort required.

I sat down and got out my current project, an extremely bad villanelle in which I was carefully avoiding the word pestilence, which was trying so hard to shove its way into every stanza that I was sure that if I actually wrote it down, the whole thing would turn into a tidy evocation of a new plague. I'm probably the only student who tries to prevent my writing assignments from turning into new spells.

Yeah, Aadhya agreed. The school wants you to go maleficer. What could you do if you decided to start using malia? If you had me make a list of the top ten questions I go to great lengths to avoid asking myself, that one would have comprehensively covered items one through nine, and the only reason it wasn't doing for item ten as well was that So how do you feel about Orion Lake had quietly crept onto the bottom of it. But it's a long way from the rest.

Because Ali did not want to see the deep pools of his kind teacher's eyes and fall into them. He didn't know how to swim.

porque nadie pregunta por aquello que prefiere ignorar.

The preceding months had been the most bewildering in my strange friendship with Clara. I hardly ever read to her anymore. Clara would systematically avoid being left on her own with me.

People could not accept the presence of Evil. They had to laugh, or shrug. Walk away, or look elsewhere.

What ever you do-Don't get caught.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

while it's easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn't this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?

If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.

I have not seen 'It' because I don't like horror movies. I don't mess with clowns or demons.

Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

Evading military service has a long history in American life.