Quotes About Avoidance

I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.

I don't go out at all. I have my three restaurants that I go to, and that's it. I spend the least possibly time here on-site because that takes energy away as well. There is a lot of people, you know. It's massive kind of stadium, a lot of players.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

As for flight, just a reminder that someone can sit inches away from another and still flee—they just do so internally. We call that stonewalling.

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

Average man is arrogant, because he is ever impressed by reason and always bows his head to it. Reason makes us believe that our challenges in life are to be avoided at all costs. This is to be a coward who does not have the self-respect needed in order to honour the marvellous gift of life.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

The Philosopher, too, says of the wicked (Ethic. ix, 4) that "their soul is divided against itself . . . one part pulls this way, another that"; and afterwards he concludes, saying: "If wickedness makes a man so miserable, he should strain every nerve to avoid vice.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself...

Until the end of the 1960's I do not recall ever seriously exchanging ideas with an articulate conservative. They were there, but not on my scope. I systematically avoided any contact with those who would have challenged my ideology.

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.