#avoid

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#break #first #fool #glass #looking

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #complex #easy #i #motivation

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#avoid #injury #more #noble #overcome

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#avoid #find #i #labels #tried

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. ↗

— Donald Cram

#avoid #being #biological #chemistry #few

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#themselves #unavoidable

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#avoid #become #camera #i #i am

I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#chips #considered #count #distance #eat

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