Quotes of: Avoid Keyword

To be comforted by God is a promise that few of us ever receive, because we are consumed with controlling our situations to avoid being vulnerable.

Humbly Submitting to Change - The Wilderness Experience

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Beyond Freedom and Dignity

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

City of Fallen Angels

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectatio...

Ayad Akhtar

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

The 4-Hour Workweek

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Jane Eyre

I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.

Kay Kay, My Super Hero Koala Bear!

It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.

Killosophy

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

Rise of the Morningstar

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Poe, come on. Don't be like this." She avoided his gaze, and that was killing him. He'd rather she yell at him than give him nothing at all.

Something's Amiss

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?

The Moving Finger

They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind.

Museum of the Weird

We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it

The Number of Missing

A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.

Nausea

Dearest, the dark will take a long span. Get a lantern or torch ready in hand To lighten the right path so that we can Cautiously avoid thorns in the night. (Navigator)

Living In Differences

If patience is how love reacts in order to minimize a negative circumstance, kidness is how love acts to maximize a positive circumstance. Patience avoids a problem; kidness creates a blessing.

The Love Dare

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

The Last Lecture