Top 572 Avoided Quotes & Sayings

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time to tell a story that deals with this subject America has avoided for so long. Most countries have been forced to deal with the atrocities of their past that still affect them to this day. But America has been pretty slippery in the way that it has avoided looking slavery in the eye. I believe that's a problem.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

Fear of death is understandable, being that we are all going to die, but fear of life and suffering is more of an irrational fear because it's something that can be avoided. The torturous part is that suffering can be avoided if you have good luck. That's somewhat out of our hands, but is it? I don't know. "Is bad luck self-harm by another name?"

What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

What is deferred is not avoided.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.

People know that pain is part of our nature, that it cannot be avoided and that it should not be avoided. But capitalism in this country is focused on the idea 1) that life can and should be absolutely beautiful; 2) that beauty can be defined according to an ironclad objective standard; 3) that beauty can be held onto forever if only you do the right things perfectly enough; and 4) that it can be purchased.

Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.

If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.

I avoided the computer generation for a very long time.

Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons.

I've avoided success artfully.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

In public life, criticism cannot be avoided completely.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

A battle avoided cannot be lost.

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies.

I've consciously avoided actually reading anything about Wikipedia.

Before 'Holby,' I'd always avoided long-term roles.

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

I am unknown because I've avoided the limelight so that I could serve. In the case of Donald Trump, he has avoided service so that he could seek the limelight.

The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

Loveless moments are to be avoided.

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Some of my friends in this business have received awful online abuse, but I've so far pretty much avoided it - and I've largely avoided meeting hideous people in the street. Most people tend to be charming.

There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuing solemn dogmatic definitions backed by the Church's infallible teaching authority. The answer is known by those who remember the conciliar declaration of March 6, 1964, repeated on November 16, 1964. In view of the pastoral nature of the Council, it avoided proclaiming in an extraordinary manner any dogmata carrying the mark of infallibility.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.