Avoid Quotes

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

I try to avoid large crowds.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

Avoid running at all times.

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.

More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

I try to avoid political ties.

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.

I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.