A battle avoided cannot be lost.
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?
There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuing solemn dogmatic definitions backed by the Church's infallible teaching authority. The answer is known by those who remember the conciliar declaration of March 6, 1964, repeated on November 16, 1964. In view of the pastoral nature of the Council, it avoided proclaiming in an extraordinary manner any dogmata carrying the mark of infallibility.
It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.
The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.
I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.
It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.
It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. . . . Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided
To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.
Consider this on your birthday You've got life's struggle beaten For 60 years you've ate And avoided being eaten
Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.
I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.