Quotes about Avoid
The quiet, almost passive young woman struck him as exactly the kind of person to whom things were bound to happen, no matter how much she shrank from them and went out of her way to avoid them.
— Edith Wharton
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
— St. John Chrysostom
The only way that we can avoid the sin of idolatry is by immersing ourselves in Spirit-enlightened study of God through the Scripture.
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)
— Emily Bronte
Can we avoid people? How is that possible? And if we associate with them, can we change them? Who gives us that power?
— Epictetus
Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Rather we must seek out9 the good things peculiar to the good, and give the widest berth to the evils peculiar to evil men.
— James Bryan Smith
It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.
— Randy Alcorn
I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.
— Melody Carlson