Quotes About Avoidance

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.

I was in government for 13 years and in that time only once met the head of the German security services, and that was because he was an old friend. Otherwise, I carefully avoided having anything to do with these people. They are unavoidable but not really necessary.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.

How can I pretend that nothing happened?

If he can't reach you he can't hit youIf he can't hit you he can't hurt you

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Im my native country I successfully avoided seeing the Grand Canyon; I avoided the Painted Desert, my nurse did not manage to drag me to Niagara. With all respect to Alexander von Humboldt, I will not get myself off this contraption to look at a tree however interesting.

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

I shouldn't have said that. We should keep reality as far away as possible.

Long ago she'd learned that facing reality was inevitable. She could skulk about, trying to avoid it or pretending it wasn't there. But in the end, reality always found her. And its finding her seemed a harsher blow than if she'd faced the situation straight on from the very start.

Some people should never meet.