Avoiding Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

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

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.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

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.”

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

Us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.

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

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

Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.

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.

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

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

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.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

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

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

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

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

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