X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Avoided" (224)

Page 2 of 10
Filter & Style
Image
I was always acting primarily with shareholder interests in mind. It's also true I've always had a fairly moralistic attitude to business, and would not do anything that I considered improper. As a consequence, I have occasionally pursued issues during my career that other people might have avoided.
Chris Corrigan
Image
The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.
John Hume
Image
I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.
Roseanne Barr
Image
To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.
Orrin Woodward
Image
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Image
I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
Michael Douglas
Image
Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.
Dalai Lama
Image
I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.
Gretchen Rubin
Image
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
Andre Breton
Image
I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.
Richelle Mead
Image
Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
Bob Hope
Image
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
Robert M. Pirsig
Image
Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.
Jim Stovall
Image
A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
Samuel Hall Lord
Image
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Image
Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.
Stephen D. Krashen
Image
Service disruptions have to be avoided or at least resolved as quickly as possible. When the Internet goes down, consumers don't notice the difference between a technical malfunction, an act of sabotage by hackers or a military attack.
Thomas de Maiziere
Image
I think the term intellectual property should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.
Linus Torvalds
Image
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.
Zalmay Khalilzad
Image
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
Buffalo Bill
Image
I am quite convinced that we need to increase the resources that go to municipalities if we want the municipalities to do the things the Constitution and the law say they must do. It can't be avoided.
Thabo Mbeki
Image
When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.
Susanna Kaysen
Image
It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.
David Letterman
Image
But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.
Alexi Giannoulias
Previous
Next