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True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided. — Steven Brust

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

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh. — Ridley Scott

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

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. — Horace

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

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection. — Henry Adams

I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field. — Chuck Klein

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde

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

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head. — Edith Head

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

I avoided Thomas Hardy because everyone should, and anyway, I was depressed enough. — Jodi Taylor

Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic. — Mike Rowe

The war ... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. — Robert E.Lee

Loveless moments are to be avoided. — Yusef Lateef

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out. — Seth Godin

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

I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors. — Richelle Mead

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

Ati sarvatra varjayet. Excess should be avoided; excess of anything is bad. — Amish Tripathi

I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all. — Guy Green

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

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. — Bruno Schulz

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

I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm. — Jason Najum

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

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could. — David Walton

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided. — Rajneesh

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

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini

The love you needed was the kind best avoided. — Robin Wasserman

This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided. — Gary Bettman

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

Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided. — P.D. James

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. — Alphonse Karr

I'd always avoided wearing white ... my least favorite absence of color. — Jennifer Bosworth

She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided ... — Thomas Pynchon

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

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. — Mae West

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex. — Gustave Flaubert

Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support. — Steven Sinofsky

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

Apologies tended to give him migraines, which was why he avoided them. (Eoin) — Annie Nicholas

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

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. — Noam Chomsky

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. — William Shakespeare

I will not let him see until none of us have any choices about what can be seen, what can be avoided, what is blind, and what will turn us to stone. — Jesmyn Ward

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight. — Stephen Colbert

I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure. — Jim Crace

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

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song. — Elliott Smith

Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems. — Jim Stovall

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. — William Safire

Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible. — Raheel Farooq