1.
This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.
Gary Bettman
3.
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.
Bruno Schulz
4.
Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.
Arthur W. Pink
5.
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
Robert M. Pirsig
6.
A battle avoided cannot be lost.
Sun Tzu
10.
Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.
Philip Bobbitt
11.
One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.
Winston Churchill
12.
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
William Shakespeare
13.
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.
Pauline Kael
15.
The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.
Shawn Ryan
16.
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Winston Churchill
17.
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne
19.
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.
Mason Cooley
21.
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.
Khaled Hosseini
22.
Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies.
Adolf Hitler
23.
I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
24.
The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.
Seth Godin
25.
The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.
John Taylor Gatto
26.
I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
Malachy McCourt
27.
You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.
Publilius Syrus
28.
A lot of fights in my life have been avoided through confidence and demeanor, so that's pretty masculine also.
Urijah Faber
29.
I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
Michael Douglas
30.
It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!
Pope Francis
31.
True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.
Steven Brust