Avoiding Quotes

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

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

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

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

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

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

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.

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.

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

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.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

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

If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, “He’s avoiding it.” If I do talk about it, it becomes, “Oh, he’s proselytizing.”

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

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

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

Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

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

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.

It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding

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

If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram.

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

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

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

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

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.