avoid Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about avoid.
“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”
- de Maupassant, Guy
“Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.”
- Joyce Maynard
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”
- Barack Obama
“Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.”
- Billy Graham
“The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.”
- George Sutherland
“Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.”
- Walter Isaacson
“Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.”
- Danica McKellar
“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
- Andre Maurois
“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.”
- Sydney Smith