Top 651 Avoiding Quotes & Sayings

People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin

It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and your Father. You wonder if you could ever feel close to God again. The message of the torn flesh is you can. God welcomes you. God is not avoiding you. God is not resisting you. The curtain is down, the door is open, and God invites you in

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

Attention to diet, exercise, avoiding or at least limiting alcohol, ending smoking, protecting our skin from the sun and avoiding stress are important to live healthier lives, with lower cancer risk.

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ... Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence (and) avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

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

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!

You can't find peace by avoiding life.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Success means making profits and avoiding losses.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.

Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion.

I go back to [the idea] that we are avoiding all of these unknowns, we're avoiding the night - most of us - we're avoiding the encounters, but we're also afraid to deal with something unknown, unseen.

Cancer is manageable. That if you deprive cancer of what it wants, by proper nutrition, avoiding toxins, avoiding chemicals and pharmaceuticals, sleeping well, eliminating stress, and balancing hormones with natural bioidentical hormones, you have a real shot at keeping your cancer at bay. In this way, you are managing your cancer.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.