Top 1200 Avoiding Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away from discomforts) and "grabbing" (trying to acquire or hold on to that which gives pleasure). With the loss of inner balance that accompanies a habitual "pushing and grabbing" approach to life, a deeper pain ensues-that of becoming aware of the ultimate unsatisfactoriness of the pleasure-seeking/pain-avoiding process itself.

Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy.

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity

I'm not avoiding Fox, but they don't seem to want me to be on their shows much. I can't understand that.

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

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

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.

Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

I will try exercise my freedom of speech by avoiding legalities.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

Avoiding the physical sciences due to the fear that they will lead to heresy is childish.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

Avoiding fear, sadness, or anger is not the same thing as being happy.

In my personal life I'm very conservative. I've been married to the same person for nearly 50 years, I'm scrupulous about paying bills, avoiding debt. I'm very careful. But as an actor I'm pretty reckless. I've done a lot of things that, when I see myself on screen, I have to shut my eyes. And I've made a whole bunch of movies that nobody sees, including me.

I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

I think that a lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out. But I think there is a consequence to that. I think us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

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

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

I have seen actresses avoiding food out of fear that beauty would be lost.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.