Best Avoided Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome. Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him. It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he had gladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical faculty housing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a young boy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.”

Source: Angels & Demons

“I do regard the Faraday cage as biologically toxic to humans and metal buildings should be avoided by those that like their good health!”

Should Humans Health Regard Good Avoided Like Biologically Toxic Faraday Cage Metal Buildings

Book:Toxic Altitude

Source: Toxic Altitude

“They all call me "Excuse me," even though my nametag clearly says "Jordan." It's like people don't actually exist while they're working. Workers are just tools who aren't supposed to have feelings or personalities. You don't become human until your shift is over. Until then, we're all just zombies. We're dead to the world: infected people who need to be avoided, unless, of course, someone needs to know where the paintbrushes are located.”

Source: Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

“Excessively noisy and very quiet environments should be avoided, as they can produce biological problems.”

Should Produce Quiet Problems Avoided Noisy Biological Very Environments Excessively

Author:Steven Magee

“Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this debt increase debate. He did this. He waited until it was a done deal that we would increase the debt ceiling, and more money would be spent, more money borrowed and then spent on bigger government. And then he came out and he made a statement, that he didn't like the deal after all. You know, you can't defer an issue and assume that the problem is going to be then avoided.”

Heart Made Done Problem Government Would Be Deals Issues Republican Bigger Increase Assuming Debt Debate Statements Bless More Money Avoided Romney Ceilings Borrowed Debt Ceiling

Author:Sarah Palin

“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."”

“Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.”

Ifs Should Matter States Attention Consciousness Meditation Fields Health Buddhism Eating Diets Preference Avoided Athletics Mammals Personal Preferences

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.”

Jobs Past Cases These Days Features Plague Avoided Down The Road Sequels Somewhere Down The Road

Author:Mark Strong

“To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.”

Wanted Issues Live Life Avoided

Author:Orrin Woodward

“For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.”

Careers Lucky Majors Injury Avoided

Author:Mark Viduka

“Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.”

Should Problem Taste Solve Mathematician Pointing Avoided Bad Taste

Author:Terence Tao

“History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.”

Giving Speak Compassion Known Humility Tragedy Wounds Avoided Orphan

Author:Kedar Joshi

“There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.”

Way Two Hands Attitude Prejudice Ignorant Indifference Bias Indifferent Avoided Two Ways Bias And Prejudice

Author:Charles Curtis

“In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.”

Men May Clear Smell Native Lamps Avoided Eloquence Oratory

Author:Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

“Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.”

Mean Causes Born Natural Issues Modern Dying Birth Celebration Avoided Predictable Parts Of Life Modern Society Unspeakable Very Mean

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.”

Danger Aesthetic Avoided

Author:Marcel Duchamp

“The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or artful play of little lights, or an attention to a variety of tints is to be avoided; a quietness and simplicity must reign over the whole work, to which a breadth of uniform and simple color will very much contribute.”

Source: The Literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy

“Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.”

Bigs Eye Courses Clear Fate Pride Shots Red Boxes Studios Wide Storytelling Censorship Avoided Covering

Author:Todd Solondz

“With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided”

Has Beens Care Taken Benefits Could Have Been Avoided Hindsight

Author:Eason Jordan

“For the past three years, the Senate intelligence committee has avoided carrying out its oversight of our nation's intelligence programs whenever the White House becomes uncomfortable with the questions being asked. The very independence of this committee is called into question.”

Years Past Three House Nations White Program Independence Uncomfortable White House Three Years Senate Committees Avoided Oversight

Author:Jay Rockefeller

“Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of Iraq believe that civil war must be avoided. It's very positive that they are all saying it.”

Believe War Past Leader Civilization Iraq Civil War Mainstream Avoided Over The Past Very Positive

Author:Zalmay Khalilzad

“The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.”

People Successful Share Listening Right Now Musician Jazz Lions 1960s Avoided

Author:Branford Marsalis

“We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.”

Giving Discovery Surprise Avoided

Book:The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography

Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography

“Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.”

Whole Christian Causes Effort Trouble Amount Flesh Whole Life Avoided Expenditures Solicitude

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.”

Ifs Women Term Destiny Enlightenment Extinction Avoided

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.”

Should Years Women Enlightenment Touched Avoided

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.”

Knows Hands Age Tragedy Clean Avoided Hiroshima Clean Hands

Book:The Legacy of Hiroshima

Source: The Legacy of Hiroshima

“Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.”

Seems Suffering Evil Felt Pride Sorrow Goodness Driven Pity Wander Delightful Avoided Samsara

Author:Shantideva

“The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.”

Purpose Illusion Yoga Avoided

Author:Frederick Lenz

“War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.”

War States Order Natural Violence Conditions Instruments Organized Treatment Behalf Avoided Hygiene Pathology

Author:Philip Bobbitt

“When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.”

Writing Years Has Beens Made Certain Effort Comfortable Areas Nervous Avoided

Author:Merrill Markoe

“Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.”

Love Is Avoided

Author:William Wycherley

“concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.”

Ends Self Chance Greater Security Avoided Adversaries Reproach Concessions

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.”

Body Mother Machines Driven Insane Denial Magnificent Garbage Womb Avoided Dump

Author:Marion Woodman

“It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.”

Long Country Political Party Consideration Political Parties Avoided Great Change

Author:Anthony Trollope

“Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.”

Might Spirit Passion Hurt Religious Responsibility Fans Expression Conviction Manifest Avoided Freedom Of Expression Provocation

Author:Jacques Chirac

“In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda... coulda... shoulda.”

Ifs Humans Mean Moments Becoming Shots Clean Meals Bullets Avoided Undead Stingy Zombie Movie Zombieland Woulda Coulda Shoulda

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.”

Ifs Helping Life Is Fall Sides Wickedness Avoided Ridges Inefficiency

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“If the distinction provided by Jesus' words: Give unto god, what is god's, and unto Caesar what is Caesar's! is carried through, then other necessary intrusions by the national state into the domain of church creeds can be completely avoided.”

Ifs Giving States Jesus Church Distinction Creeds Domain Avoided Intrusion Jesus Words

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.”

Needs May Form Numbers Example Anxiety Evidence Doctors Soldier Oneself Profession Primaries Limitation Related Priests Motivated Spheres Transcendence Avoided Specialness Morticians

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.”

Men May Soul Body Circumstances Determined Inevitable Avoided Precaution

Book:Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

Source: Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

“I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.”

School Education Class Discipline Technique Hated Avoided Absent Absent Minded

Author:Sigrid Undset

“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.”

Has Beens War Seems Lying Social Poor Behinds Violence Groups Produce Source Research Historical Historian Murderer Avoided Parental Abusive Mothering Sociologists Historical Research

Author:Lloyd deMause

“I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour [in my children]: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.”

Ifs Children Two Talking Type Guilt Behaviour Avoiding Avoided Entitlement Sense Of Entitlement

Author:John Elkann

“See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.”

Ifs Men Mean Would Be Suffering Simple Poor Kindness Destruction Monsters Bread Generosity Buying Avoided Acts Of Kindness Alleviate Wholesale Working Women Simple Acts Of Kindness

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real but all too frequently avoided or unseen issues impacting countless Christian women today. Their candid essays cover a wide spectrum of perspectives. Readers will resonate with some and be shocked by others. Talking Taboo took courage to write. Reading taboo takes courage too. So buckle up and brace yourself for an eye-opening but vitally important read!”

“There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life”

Littles Character Faces Suffering Risk Rejected Avoided Loveliness

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.”

Children School Deals Avoided Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Has Beens Wish Could Have Been Avoided Nhl Nhl Lockout

Author:Gary Bettman

“I don’t think famous is what I necessarily went for. The media was never something I really looked into and now especially I see it happening to me I think I was very smart when I was younger to not want that. It doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen, I just avoided it as much as possible.”

Thinking Want Mean Happens Media Smart Happenings Avoided Very Smart

Author:Miley Cyrus

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