#avoid

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin. ↗

— Mary Astell

#commit #endure #greater #greatest #grief

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change. ↗

— Alan Alda

#avoid #change #dog #go #into

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. ↗

— Tim Allen

#area #avoid #comment #end #large

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ↗

— Fred Allen

#become #being #celebrity #dark #glasses

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural. ↗

— Michael Behe

#avoid #conclusions #must #often #said

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. ↗

— Denis Healey

#between #difference #evasion #prison #tax

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#going #i #much #places #poverty

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. ↗

— Michael McKean

#avoid #becoming #just #me #people

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor. ↗

— Mario Monti

#europe #means #new #north #old