Quotes About Avoidance

Some people should never meet. The fallout spreads too wide and gets into the ground for much too long.

Trains aren't a problem." "You turn into mist?" "No, I step out of the way.

Sorry, I'd love to hang out with you but this alcohol isn't going to drink itself into incoherence and liver failure

Staying occupied is a socially sanctioned way of remaining distant from our pain.

Yet by running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness.

No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.

The gods have said, and the Greeks also, that when a man wishes to evade his duties he can summon any illness to assist him

[W]hen you're dealing with stress, the problem may not be the stressful situation, as much as the effort to avoid that situation and the feelings it arouses.

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.

I'm not a fan of spiders... I tend to avoid them as much as I can.

One of my least favorite things is having my full name called out at the pharmacy. I always try to cut them off before they can say 'Spielberg.'

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

But a trick of the voice and the general body language was enough that I had a visceral desire to simply avoid him.

his first instinct with things that troubled him was to wall them off, and then wait for them to grow bad enough to threaten the structural integrity of the wall, and then, finally, to get out a sledgehammer.

So you've placed yourself there to begin with in order to avoid going there. Hmmmmm. Interesting strategy.

The American trait I dislike the most is their casual approach to life. No one thinks ahead further than the next minute, no one has the courage to look life squarely in the eye, difficult things are always avoided. No youth of my age has any kind of spiritual problem that he seriously concerns himself with… one of the main reasons why I have had difficulty making friends with any American.

It is in the nature of things that every time you try to avoid one danger you run into another. Good sense consists in being able to assess the dangers and choose the lesser of various evils.

Denial is an ugly thing.

By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he'd been, she'd never live down what she'd done, and since there wasn't a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him.

Movies and I just equally avoided each other at certain times in my life, you know?