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Quotes About Avoidance

Scese, evitando di guardarla a lungo, come si fa col sole; ma vedeva lei, come si vede il sole, anche senza guardare.
~ Lev Tolstoj
Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it.
~ LeVar Burton
Self-blame is usually a way of avoiding something more hideous anyway, something you're willing to be punished for but unwilling to change, or even something terrible in the imperfect structure of the universe.
~ Lewis Nordan
Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.
~ Robin Marantz Henig
People were holding high denomination notes to keep tax unaccounted for money. Some sectors like real estate were using cash to avoid tax.
~ Urjit Patel
Male guilt avoidance syndrome,' explained my father. 'It's a recognised medical condition by 2054.
~ Jasper Fforde
Male guilt avoidance syndrome," explained my father. "It's a recognized medical condition by 2054.
~ Jasper Fforde
I am desperately looking the other way so that love won't see me.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Feeling. I didn't want to feel.
~ Jeanette Winterson
We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.
~ Samuel Florman
I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
~ Robert Jordan
I will read anything rather than work.
~ Jean Kerr
It's a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That's what you should learn self-defense for.
~ Jocko Willink
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.
~ Russell Baker
In real life, when I can avoid anything stressful, I do.
~ Derren Brown
If something's stressful I've always tended to just find ways of avoiding it rather than rising to meet it or try to change it.
~ Derren Brown
I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen, on opposite coasts of the country.
~ Jami Attenberg
Everybody said I was ducking opponents.
~ Greg Hardy
I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.
~ Penelope Cruz
Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.
~ Willem Dafoe
If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
~ Albrecht Durer