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Avoided Quotes

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

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

"NHL cancel remainder of the season". www.cnn.com. February 16, 2005.

Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A W Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1928-29”, p.72, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

What is deferred is not avoided.

Saint Thomas More (2005). “Utopia”

Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.

"The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History". Book by Philip Bobbitt, 2002.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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, James Hain Friswell (1866). “Essays by Montaigne. [A selection.] Edited, compared, revised, and annotated by the Author of “The Gentle Life” [J. H. Friswell].”, p.318

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.213

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

"Michael Douglas: 'I am consumed with being a father'" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

Steven Brust (1999). “The Book of Jhereg”, p.58, Penguin

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

Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.86, Penguin