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Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.
— Winston Churchill
Arthur narrowly avoided tripping over his own skirt as he hurried out of the ladies' powder room in full pursuit.
— Graham Moore
I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.
— Frederick Lenz
Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.
— Daniel Radcliffe
Death cannot be avoided forever, but it can be postponed - in that respect it's very like the washing up.
— Jasper Fforde
I hated the mirror and avoided it as much as I could. A glimpse would only remind me: I'll never be normal again.
— Lauren Scruggs
With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided
— Eason Jordan
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided ... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
A broken heart and God's will done would be better than that God's will should be avoided and her own satisfied.
— Robert Hugh Benson
I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.
— Chuck Klein
Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.
— Dalai Lama
To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
— William Sloane Coffin
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
— Pearl S. Buck
I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles
— Toni Morrison
I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.
— Leigh Steinberg
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
— John Steinbeck
Loveless moments are to be avoided.
— Yusef Lateef
He had avoided what he regarded as some obvious errors of life, such as politics and golf.
— Richard Flanagan
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
— Publilius Syrus
Kruppe nodded. Kruppe is no fool, K'rul. He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs.
— Steven Erikson
Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex ...
— Gustave Flaubert
They were miserable at sports, but great at fantasy sports. They avoided fights, but sought arguments.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?
— Eugene Mirman
Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.
— Philip Bobbitt
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.
— Claire Delacroix
The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.
— Frederick Lenz
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
— John Boyd Orr
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
— Irwin Edman
I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams
— Paulo Coelho
Women who read are dangerous. Women who write are to be avoided.
— Chloe Thurlow
There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life
— Madeleine L'Engle
To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.
— Orrin Woodward
..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...
— Michel Leiris
If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.
— Frederick Lenz
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
— Mark Twain
The soft song from the past threatened to awaken feelings and memories she avoided like black-eyed peas and family reunions.
— Pepper D. Basham
Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Violence is avoided, when we sit down with others, and discuss issues, and work together for solutions.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.
— John Steinbeck
The love you needed was the kind best avoided.
— Robin Wasserman
All the doors we have not knocked mean many perils we have avoided or many opportunities we have missed, but we shall never know!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
He was tall and wiry and looked as though he had been a horse in previous lives and had only just avoided it in this one.
— Terry Pratchett
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
— Annie Dillard
I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
— Alice Hoffman
You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.
— Publilius Syrus
I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.
— Agatha Christie
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
— Alphonse Karr
I'd always avoided wearing white ... my least favorite absence of color.
— Jennifer Bosworth
I avoided any direct reference to Jews and Blacks, who had never given me any trouble. All my trouble had come from white gentiles.
— Charles Bukowski
Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.
— Stephen D. Krashen
He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.
— Gustave Flaubert
Destiny is something not to be desired and not to be avoided.
— Dag Hammarskjold
It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent.
— Raymond Kelly
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Samurai are born to die.Death is not a curse to be avoided
but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal ... dishonor is. — Rick Remender
The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.
— Frederick Lenz
The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Esther always avoided asking questions of Lydley, who found an answer as she found a key, by pouring out a pocketful of miscellanies.
— George Eliot
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. — William Shakespeare
Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.
— Stephen Colbert
All this could have been avoided if I were less pretty.
— Gillian Flynn
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
— Clarence Day
I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
— Niall Ferguson
A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
— Samuel Hall Lord
Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.
— Jim Stovall
