Quotes About Avoidance

Het enige wat je over oorlog moet weten, zoon, is: Niet gaan. "The only thing you need to know about war, son, is: Don't go.

People will go to strange lengths to avoid the suffering they have coming.

People will go to strange lengths to avoid the suffering they have coming. The world is full of people who should have been more willing to weep.

Every remedy for loneliness only postpones it.

He keeps from off the king's road for fear of citizenry.

Then I thought of how my life at Ault was a series of interactions and avoidance of interactions in which I pretended not to mind that I was almost always by myself. I could not last for long this way, certainly not for the next three years; I'd been at Ault only seven months, and already, my loneliness felt physically exhausting.

I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.

Always avoid the acute angle.

Whenever peace – conceived as the avoidance of war – has been the primary objective of a power or a group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community. Whenever the international order has acknowledged that certain principles could not be compromised even for the sake of peace, stability based on an equilibrium of forces was at least conceivable.

Charlie's dictum: "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.

Fear itself does not exist in the world. There are only fearful thoughts and avoidance behaviors.

prevent difficulties rather than solve them.

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!

What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?" "Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!

He took Ed for a Southerner and tried to stay clear of him.

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.

Augustine [of Hippo] knew the power and the danger of idolatry and celebrity. And he knew the danger of both was first to permit the idolater to offload the duty of thinking onto their idol. And second to seduce the celebrity, in turn, into thinking his fans have nothing insightful to say. That treatment of a fellow human, a fellow christian, would be not the achievement of theology but the avoidance of it. And he went out of his way in his life and in his words to forestall such approaches.

All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.

Man goes to great lengths to avoid his own responsibility.

Cupcakes are for people who can't handle reality.

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be