Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.
I’ve never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
I know that Israeli soldiers will do everything they can in order to avoid loss of innocent life.
Because women have been marginalised, they’re more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don’t think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor to the right is Kate Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’, which is dispiriting. That’s a book I don’t want to re-read.
I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.
Talk to successful entrepreneurs. Learn about what they’ve experienced so you can avoid some of the pitfalls that come with wealth.
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but… it is flattering and of course challenging.
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
