#avoid

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#altogether #anyone #avoiding #because #certain time

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#death #effort #filibuster #know #purpose

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#awful #doubles #during #first #hitting

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#avoid #cannot #crime #excuse #i

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do. ↗

— Richard Blumenthal

#called #could #did #i #realize

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#interesting #novel #out #seeks #sublime

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#cannot #cast #covet #doth #even

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence. ↗

— David Bohm

#avoid #call #i #keeping #results

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#blind #cause #dangerous #decisiveness #exists

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#books #characters #colorful #outside