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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
I've got a really canny knack for avoiding big punches or clean punches.
I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.
My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.
I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.
Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.
Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.
If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram.
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.
The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of
avoiding baths
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.
I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I go and look at it, I remember why I should be avoiding it.
Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.
The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.
Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.
But always think this: do not be afraid of failure. Do not be afraid of falling. In the art of walking, what is important is not avoiding the fall but not remaining fallen.
Not a single Mainer should be rationing their medication or avoiding a trip to the doctor because they aren't sure what it will end up costing.
Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me.
If something's stressful I've always tended to just find ways of avoiding it rather than rising to meet it or try to change it.
These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.
With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.
The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.
It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding
As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.
Eating a varied plant-based diet - and avoiding all meat, fish, chicken and dairy products - may have much to recommend it, but it's certainly not for everyone.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.
Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'
I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.
I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.
My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.
If we lose Saudi Arabia because of sanctions or by avoiding them, they're going to China; they're going to Russia.
We have seen at first hand that upholding the Good Friday Agreement while also avoiding a hard border in Ireland is the key to unblocking the Brexit logjam.
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.
There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.
She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
The BP settlement is a victory for Alabama: not only for the amount of compensation we were able to secure, but also for avoiding many more years of litigation.
Breaking dramatically with Bush-era Republican orthodoxy, Trump ran on a message of 'America First' and of avoiding spending blood and treasure on adventures overseas.
An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.
My goal and mission is to be very strong in avoiding back steps. I leave judgments, evaluations and analysis to the media, then to the observers.
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.
When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.
From avoiding littering to encouraging local economy, there is a lot each one of us can do that will go a long way in keeping the country's cultural legacy intact.
