Quotes About Avoidance

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

In contrast to status quo conservatism, authoritarianism is primarily driven not by aversion to change (difference over time) but by aversion to complexity (difference across space). In a nutshell, authoritarians are "simple-minded avoiders of complexity more than closed-minded avoiders of change" (Stenner 2009b: 193).

You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again." "I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time." "I've been thinking about you, too." "I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know." "I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq

Avoidance of lunacy is an insufficient agenda." -George Will on Ronald Reagan, 3-6-1987

We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Prevention is better than cure.

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

The problem is to be faced and the solution to be shirked.

Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)

No one got forever. And it was a fucking crime to waste what you were given. Enough, Qhuinn thought. Enough with the excuses, and the avoidance, and the trying to be someone, anyone else. Even if he got shanked, even if his precious little ego and his dumb-ass little heart got shattered into a million pieces, it was time to stop the bullshit. It was time to be a male.

Uh-huh, right. Let me count all the ways you and I aren't going there.

I've purposely set up my life to be alone so I won't get hurt.

I plead the fifth.

I don't read Twitter.

I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.

I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have.

Ulcers come from not dealing with something.