Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Theodore Roosevelt
86 quotes about avoiding follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Publilius Syrus
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus
We want to avoid any bad surprises for taxpayers.
Bruce Barnett
The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
Boyle Roche
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Katharine Graham
Just to avoid that, we are going to pause until things are clearer.
Tony Wright
To be frank, we want to avoid price controls.
Jeff Trewhitt
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
Henry Clay
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
Darby Conley
It's not that I believe he's trying to avoid it.
D. James Baker
It's not what you would have wanted of you wanted to avoid higher rates.
Robin Clements
Avoid blockage to fire equipment as well.
Terry Thompson
Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.
David Assael
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Sir Arthur Helps
Perhaps he wanted to avoid a controversy.
Arun Jaitley
There will always be those who will avoid paying and then we have to go back to the courts.
Roger Munns
We want to avoid accidents such as this one.
Sara Stern
There's no way to avoid it. Children are going to be deprived of what they could have. Something will have to change.
William Kiefer
You try to avoid injuries by playing smart.
Stingers Qb Scott Syvret
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Demosthenes
We want to make sure they avoid charges.
Nicholas Graham
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.
John Glenn
The authorities in Belgrade ... want to avoid this event.
Marko Milosevic
It was designed to avoid any funding controversy.
Kyle Cavanaugh
You can not gain peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
The market has a high degree of confidence the Fed will avoid.
William Poole
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
Tim Hansel
It's an attempt to avoid the hard questions in a press free-for-all.
Mac Stipanovich
The goal is to avoid surprises and instill stewardship.
Bill Swanton
That seems to push people in the direction of avoiding risk if activated too much.
Brian Knutson
The robot can reach into the area very precisely and avoid those nerves.
William Peine
We avoid that temptation to put in only things we need help with.
Kevin Krone
Local people, we tend to avoid anything unpleasant.
Craig Inouye
How can we avoid it?
Sen. Margarita Prentice
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
That's one of the reasons some people avoid napping altogether.
David Dinges
By having a rules system in place they avoid that yo-yo.
Joydeep Mukherji
I totally avoid that. That's the first thing I learned.
Cole Mueller
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus
The EU cannot avoid debating this issue with Russia.
Jean Asselborn
It was an important act, the troops were able to avoid ... another bloodshed.
Xanana Gusmao
The biggest thing we've done, ... is to avoid feeling comfortable.
William Harper
I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.
Sarah Silverman
We need to avoid those big droughts.
Pat Deegan
The Belgrade authorities do not allow it, they want to avoid it. We do not have any other choice.
Marko Milosevic
We must avoid the depression factor.
Sergio Chiamparino
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
Saint John Chrysostom
What we're trying to avoid is having to move more than once.
Don Smithburg
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
This is not about avoiding fish. It is about paying attention to the types and amount of fish you eat.
David Acheson
They are not very agile fliers, and they don't seem to be very skilled at avoiding predators, .
Louie Yang
We're going to stick to science on this thing and avoid speculation.
Paul Johansen
We believe that the family has had a role in helping him avoid arrest.
Doug Bachert
Absolutely, positively wrong. We're in the business of cleaning up -- we're not in the business of avoiding cleaning up.
Col. Michael Rossi
We need to get back to negotiations and avoid the escalation.
Mark Gwozdecky
You have to avoid coming off in any way as hateful. If they can't do that, they won't succeed.
Mark Brewer
I want to avoid last summer.
Karen Bell
That's exactly the thing we were trying to avoid.
Dan Dickel
The only way to avoid that is to get something done in the Congress.
Juan Romero
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
Charles M. De Talleyrand
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich
We did that to avoid confusion with the federal filing date.
Michael Golden
I tell my son to avoid that area, because it is extremely dangerous.
Alan Parker
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Norman Vincent Peale
The best way to resolve a problem is not to try and avoid it.
Noel Clarasó
Many people say, 'My art will heal the people.' I always avoid 'heal the people,'.
Hiro Yamagata
The airline's already slim chances of avoiding bankruptcy are dwindling rapidly.
Philip Baggaley
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Laura Riding
We try to do our very best to avoid that.
Robert Kaye
[Or it's just a compulsion.] It's not something you choose to do, ... You can't avoid doing it.
Liz Stubbs
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