Quotes About Avoidance

Don't talk about horrid subjects. If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened.

Bertie, do you read Tennyson? Not if I can help.

But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is. Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.

It seems incredible that we haven't met before. If you ask most people, they will tell you the difficult thing is to avoid meeting me.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

Colin was beginning to be afraid(...)of the future, of the possibility, suddenly glimpsed, that his life might end like this. Like most young people, he'd always assumed, without ever really thinking about it, that regret, waste, failure lay in wait for others, but not for him. Now(...)he realized, for the first time, that he was not exempt, that this, unless he took steps to avoid it, could happen to him.

He backed away and so did she.

I have listened to, engaged in, and watched the effect of thousands of arguments. As a result of all this, 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. Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the contestants more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right.

I believe one reason why so many people do in fact fail to immerse themselves in the words of the New Testament, and neglect or even avoid them, is that the life they see there is so unlike what they know from their own experience.

If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.

Po mom iskustvu ljudi idu puno dalje da bi izbjegli nešto ?ega se boje nego da dobiju nešto što žele.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire

El hombre llega mucho más lejos para evitar lo que teme que para alcanzar lo que desea.

You should not have run.

Recognize that feelings fade unless restimulated, and use this to your advantage. Avoid restimulating undesired feelings.

The old man bridled at this. All his life he had gone out of his way to avoid any situation that might be mistaken for a friendship.

They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge.

My father never mentioned Him-it was as if God was one of Rose's relatives he'd rather not get involved with.

A lot of problems stem from a desire to avoid discomfort. For example, people who fear failure often avoid new challenges in an effort to keep anxiety at bay. Avoiding emotional discomfort, however, is usually a short-term solution that leads to long-term problems.

My life, though, has been something (as only now at last I am able to see), but it is something that it has made of itself, not something that I have made of it. All I seem to have done is avoid wherever I could (so far) the man across the desk—for (so far) the world has afforded a little room for a few of us, lucky or blessed, to go around him. And now I wonder if I can die quickly enough and secretly enough to make the final evasion.

Even at a young age one sometimes recognizes that there are behavior patterns that would simply be a waste of time for everyone concerned, which leads you to put them out of your mind or avoid them until you reach a certain stage of inebriation, whereupon everything is reconsidered again.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Defeats, humiliations- craven avoidance- burn into memory so much more deeply than their opposites.

Opportunities to do very badly were manifold. You avoided them. The major part in any success.