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I have spent most of my life (like most people) avoiding transcendence at all costs, mainly because the shit hurts.
— Steve Earle
Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
— Michael Haneke
Resilience isn't cultivated by avoiding stress, you see, but by learning how to tame and master it.
— Jessica Joelle Alexander
You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
— Helen Keller
Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.
— Rachel Kushner
If you keep avoiding the forces that can defeat you, you may never learn your true power!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.
— William Beckett
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking.
— Leo Tolstoy
Procrastination is your way of avoiding your fantasy of reality.
— Gloria Arenson
There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoiding it.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.
— Pope Francis
Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.
— Michele Jennae
Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn't want to pass that thunderhead on her way out.
— Katherine McIntyre
It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding
— Stieg Larsson
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
— Saul Steinberg
Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
— Philip Yancey
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.
— Murray Bartlett
To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.
— Stephen Chbosky
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
— Rebecca Hall
The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.
— David D. Burns
There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
— Francis Bacon
It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of 'equilibrium' that an organism appears so enigmatic;
— Erwin Schrodinger
You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
— Fred Thompson
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.
— M. Scott Peck
For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU.
— Steve Maraboli
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
— Errol Morris
The best way of avoiding mistakes is doing nothing
— Thabiso Monkoe
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
— Oliver Herford
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.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Smart people don't learn ... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.
— Chris Argyris
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners
— James Patterson
I learned to smile, avoiding happiness advice.
— Brian Spellman
There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.
— Taylor Swift
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Instead of avoiding attention they invited it
— Helen Rappaport
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
— Amy Bloom
Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.
— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.
— Craig Armstrong
She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.
— Margaret Way
I can't believe she's lived this long. God must be avoiding her.
— Brian Francis
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[...]avoiding mistakes, looking for a way to make life perfect isn't reality. Reality is mistakes, failures, and heartache.
— Kristen Kehoe
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.
— John Frusciante
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
— Syd Barrett
When are you going to admit that you are avoiding me because you're hot for me?""When hell freezes over."
Trevor-Raven — Ellen Schreiber
Your chances of avoiding the nursing home are directly related to the number of children you have,
— Atul Gawande
Secret 7591.42.21. Avoiding weasel words in your intelligence analysis isn't easy when your intelligence analysis is about weasels.
— The Covert Comic
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
— Henri Poincare
Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?
— Sam Keen
Avoiding guilt is not the same as making rational decisions.
— Gever Tulley
Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.
— Tsunetomo Yamamoto
It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
— John Grisham
Fate is a lazy man's excuse for avoiding curiosity.
— Brian Farrey
Why would he do that? I thoughthe said
he loved me." "As if I needed a reason to hate him more," Asher muttered, avoiding my gaze. — Jocelyn Davies
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
— Edward Tufte
Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training
— Robert A. Heinlein
Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.
— Kristin Cashore
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.
— Ibn Taymiyyah
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
— Gustave Flaubert
Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible.
— Toni Morrison
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There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
— Rudolf Arnheim
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.
— Timothy Ferriss
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
— Audre Lorde
A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
— Arnold Bennett
Feeling better doesn't come from avoiding adulthood, it comes from investing in adulthood.
— Meg Jay
There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.
— Bill O'Reilly
