#avoid

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#battles #consists #fighting #happiness #itself

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#catholic #chemistry #forbidden #lawful #mathematics

Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories. But when I'm at home, I eat what my wife cooks for me. She works hard to avoid making foods that are high in calories and cholesterol, so most of the time, she makes vegetarian dishes. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#because #calories #chef #cholesterol #consume

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#being #drawn #into #petitioner #problem

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it. ↗

— Norah Jones

#anyone #avoid #element #i #like

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#bloodshed #hard #i #labored #trouble

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#drag #dust #end #in the end #just

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want. ↗

— William Kirby

#anyone #anything #area #avoids #conflict

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#avoid #complexities #deal #degree #difficulty

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#avoid #i #i think #look #need