A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“Avoid activities outdoor. If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance of infection [with Zika virus].”
“Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.”
“Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.”
“Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.”
“Avoid all doubtful ideas and put your mind into the realms of true belief.”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.”
“Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.”
“Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
“Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth to another feed their curiosity and restlessness; they even distract their intellect with too great a multiplicity of views. Give every truth time to send down deep root into the heart.”
“Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.”
“Avoid and ignore the idiots who try to bring you down in life; they are not worth your time.”
“Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.”
“Avoid any enclosed space where more than
three people are wearing turtlenecks.”
“Avoid any exercises that may produce injuries.”
“Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode.”
“Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.”
“Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes”
“Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results
“Avoid associations that seek not to occupy the seat of victory. Those who make vanity seem like some form of victory. Those who are quick to point you away from your destiny. Avoid such associations wholeheartedly.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.”
Source: Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw
“Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).”
“Avoid becoming entrapped by the mundane, pursue the best potential outcome for any situation.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Avoid being a 'groan' up.”
“Avoid being force-fed by those who enjoy eating poison.”
“Avoid being narrow-minded; it's a fat world.”
Source: Philosophical Uplifting Quotes volume 2
“Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.”
“Avoid buying frozen dinners and processed foods, as they are often overloaded with salt.”
“Avoid cheap clients. If a prospect client tries to lowball you for deep discounts, shut the door.”
Source: Get To The Top
“Avoid CHEAP CLIENTS with EXPENSIVE DEMANDS”
“Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.”
“Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.”
“Avoid conflicts, Embrace cordiality.”
“Avoid confusing compromise with negating yourself. The surrender that often has to occur in a relationship with a narcissist as “compromise” it can keep your submissive and fruitless behaviors and expectations alive. The red flags were made apparent within the first three months of the relationship. Everyone told me not to marry her or at least to wait a little longer. She was doing everything he had accused me of. Whenever she did not like how things were going, she would break up with me, and then take me back quickly.”
Source: Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
“Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.”
“Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.”
“Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.”
“Avoid creating a hierarchy of human suffering as if compassion were a finite resource.”
Source: Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business
“Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.”
“Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.”
“Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.”
“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail on water all around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.”
“Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.”
Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne
“Avoid ‘distracting’ meals such as TV dinners and computer lunches. replace the biscuit jar with a fruit bowl. Repackage food into smaller containers. Order half-size portions in restaurants. Replace short wide glasses with tall narrow ones. And get smaller plates.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Avoid distractions and procrastination; redirect your focus to success, and you will see the results of your profound diligence.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Avoid distractions at all costs.”
“Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.”
“Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot serve God and mammon' (Mt. 6:24); cling to God alone, put your trust in Him alone; for the Devil, by inciting us to duplicity, seeks himself to gain possession of our heart, which is single and indivisible.”
“Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.”