I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
One of the basic things we should avoid is to criticize others. Better to criticize yourself. Criticize yourself, criticize your brothers and sisters, criticize your country, criticize all the habits you have and laugh at yourself, is the best way. If you know how to laugh at yourself then you will not object or will not stand in the way of any creativity of another person.
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.
Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.
Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger.
We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.
Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!
Religions. . . seem to avoid mountain passes.
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.
If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?
A person wearing tinted glasses can avoid the conclusion that the entire world is tinted only by being conscious of the glasses themselves.
My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented as an argument is really a rationalization. This can undermine our confidence in the original method or practice only by giving us reasons to believe something else, so that finally we have to think about the arguments to make up our minds.
Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.
You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.