Avoiding famous quotes

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
-- Amy Bloom

#Writing #Process #Avoiding

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

#Expression #Silence #Avoiding

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Silence #Vices #Avoiding

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
-- Arthur Helps

#Reading #Sometimes #Avoiding

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time
-- Bo

#Diplomacy #Avoiding #Right Time

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
-- Boethius

#Avoiding #Nobility

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
-- Cesare Pavese

#Avoiding

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.
-- Dalai Lama

#Helping #Harm #Avoiding

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

#Inspirational #Needs #Avoiding

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Sin #Avoiding

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
-- Fred Thompson

#Challenges #Wish #Avoiding

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

#Pain #Moments #Avoiding

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
-- Horace

#Vices #Virtue #Avoiding

Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
-- John D. MacDonald

#Friendship #Unforgivable #Avoiding

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.
-- John Gielgud

#Past #Remember #Avoiding

It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
-- John Grisham

#Waiting #Ends #Avoiding

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.
-- Julie Kenner

#Justification #Avoiding #Housework

Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.
-- Kosho Uchiyama

#Self #Order #Avoiding

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.
-- Kristin Cashore

#Opportunity #Avoiding

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.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Parent #Becoming #Avoiding

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.
-- Margaret Atwood

#Years #Avoiding

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.
-- Margaret Atwood

#Broken Heart #Over You #Avoiding

You can't find peace by avoiding life.
-- Michael Cunningham

#Peace #Finding Peace #Avoiding

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.
-- Michael Cunningham

#Finding Peace #Avoiding

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
-- Neil Gaiman

#Numbers #Path #Avoiding

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
-- Paul Tillich

#Way #Neurosis #Avoiding

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

#Drama #Periods #Avoiding

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing
-- Soichiro Honda

#Challenges #Doing Nothing #Avoiding

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
-- Syd Barrett

#Disappear #Avoiding

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

#Needs #Avoiding

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.'
-- Tom Cruise

#Different #Humanitarian #Avoiding

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.
-- Wayne Dyer

#Avoiding

Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!
-- Edwina Findley

#Passionate #Avoiding #Honestly

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.
-- W. Kamau Bell

#Years #Embarrassing #Avoiding

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

#Song #Avoiding #Standpoint

It's my genius plan of avoiding any career momentum whatsoever. Definitely the pop-culture thing is something I've avoided in my act. It's just too transitory and ephemeral.
-- Christian Finnegan

#Genius #Avoiding

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.
-- Steve Redgrave

#Race #Natural Instinct #Avoiding