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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.
Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.
You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.
I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.
Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress
I didn't expect to become the guy who people look to do something cool in the Rumble in terms of avoiding elimination.
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them
Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.
Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.
I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.
Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.
Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, or in the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear.
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.
The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.
There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans... that's when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.
High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.
At six
I lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
avoiding myself,
my body, the suspect
in its grotesque house.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
We have to be alert to the way brands behave and misbehave. We have to reward the good ones with our loyalty and punish the bad ones by avoiding them.
I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.
In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.
The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.
Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.
I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.
[Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
I tried to be really healthy and eat whole and organic as much as possible. I think that's the key to avoiding crazy weight gain.
Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
I've been in this position before when you never lose, when your record is clear, people are avoiding you.
We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.
People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.
Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise.
Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
My main memory of 'Soft Sounds' was that I was so convinced that 'Psychopomp' was this fluke - I had this real pressure of avoiding the sophomore slump.
The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.
You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.
I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.
You probably have started losing touch with humility when your friends start avoiding you without telling you why.
Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
I'm not avoiding the Tamil film industry because I'm making Hindi films. It's just that I'm extremely busy with Bollywood commitments.
