Top 122 Avoiding Quotes

Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.

I’ve found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day – let the calendar take care of the years.

Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I’m open quarry again.

I have seen actresses avoiding food out of fear that beauty would be lost.

There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today’s complex environment do so at their own peril.

I’ve been avoiding journalists my whole life.

Success means making profits and avoiding losses.

I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you’re avoiding. It’s a terribly unsung period in people’s lives. I can’t think about many artists who have sung about it, because it’s so not sexy.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you’re dead. That’s how I feel about things.

Eating a varied plant-based diet – and avoiding all meat, fish, chicken and dairy products – may have much to recommend it, but it’s certainly not for everyone.

Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it’s not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.

I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

With silent films, you’re better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It’s this pact that leads to emotion being created.

I consume the news daily. I’m not avoiding it.

I don’t see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.

We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism.

It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV ‘haves and have-nots,’ they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation’s only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

My goal and mission is to be very strong in avoiding back steps. I leave judgments, evaluations and analysis to the media, then to the observers.

For me, personally, when I’m afraid of something – when you’re afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

But I have been avoiding talking about what I’m doing now because it’s frustrating for people to hear about things that aren’t available yet.

Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.

Avoiding fear, sadness, or anger is not the same thing as being happy.

Dealing with uncertainty is always a key challenge for investors. But dealing with uncertainty doesn’t mean avoiding it – on the contrary, it is often fuzziness about a company’s future that creates the type of opportunity bargain-hunting investors cherish.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

Medicine, which I wouldn’t be without, has also been a force for… less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we’ve certainly increased the risk of asthma.

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 management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.

Zimbabweans, I’ve come to believe, we are very passive-aggressive people. We don’t like conflict; we don’t like confrontation, so we find all sorts of ways of avoiding that conflict and confrontation. We are not allowed to talk about bad things that go on in families.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

I’m not actively avoiding television. I just haven’t found the right fit yet, as it were. And that’s O.K.

I will try exercise my freedom of speech by avoiding legalities.

In today’s YouTube world, are officers reluctant to get out of their cars and do the work that controls violent crime? Are officers answering 911 calls but avoiding the informal contact that keeps bad guys from standing around, especially with guns?

I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I go and look at it, I remember why I should be avoiding it.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‘not complex or complicated; sincere.’

The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking.

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I’ve been in this position before when you never lose, when your record is clear, people are avoiding you.

In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

When I’m afraid of something, I’m going at it twice as hard. I don’t believe any fear can be conquered by avoiding it.

If you have Trump avoiding income tax and money coming in, and then he’s still able to control it and use it as if it was his income to help his interests, then you’re starting to see a bigger legal problem.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

I’m not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don’t really seek it out either.

I wish to pay attention to what we can do better to prevent conflict. Because by avoiding conflict, we save human lives, and we also save money.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there’s a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don’t need to do so.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth – and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn’t work out.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.