Quotes About Avoidance

It's easier to believe a lie to avoid the truth, but the real lie is in believing that you can avoid the truth in the first place.

I wonder if we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Or do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.

You can't find yourself by avoiding life.

It is much easier to deny, blame others, project elsewhere, or bury it and just keep on rolling.

stuff it up with anything rather than have a void.

No, no, no. We're not stopping to talk to Marty…" Hey, Marty, how ya doing, man?" No, no, The Duke, we don't need any cocaine today. Keep moving. Keep moving.

In other words, it was the one place on earth where she was required by law to stay away from me.

To avoid the paparazzi

keep your head down, try to blend in, and don't get on anyone's bad side. You've already seen what I look like, so you can probably guess which one I chose. As soon as I got to homeroom, I went straight for the back row and sat as far from the teacher's desk as possible. There was just one problem with that plan, and his name was Miller. Miller

I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

The part that makes you unique is the bit people will like or fear, fall in love with, or try to avoid.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

Sometimes guys avoid things they don't know how to do well.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.

The avoidance of explicit ethical judgments leads political scientists to one overriding implicit value judgment - that in favor of the political status quo as it happens to prevail in any given society.

I want to stay away from controversies.

I have always stayed away from TV. It never made sense to me.

When TV came along some years back I purposely stayed away from drama.

I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didn't cause them any later embarrassment.