Quotes About Avoidance

I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

I pretty much spent my twenties as a musician and taking acting classes. I loved it. I was at UCLA getting As and Bs in English and creative writing, basically trying to stay out of the Army. All I really wanted to do was play music.

People forget what they want to forget.

Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be.

My big brother used to come home drunk and he'd clash with my dad and I just didn't want that.

I back away from negativity - there's too much in this world, and I don't want to be around it.

I'm having to protect myself. How do you protect your heart and cover everything? When you don't want to look people in the eye and you're constantly dodging, I fall into it.

I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

I hate birthdays. It's so funny, people always come up to me, "Hey! It's my birthday!" But when it's my birthday, I don't want to talk about it, I don't wanna tell anybody.

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

It's so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.

I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know.

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

You remind me of someone with a bad toothache who's hitting herself in the head with a hammer to distract herself from the pain in her mouth.