This collection holds 233 avoiding quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Martin Luther King, Jr., Edsger Dijkstra and Virginia Woolf.

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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but ... - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

I consume the news daily. I'm not avoiding it.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!

Success means making profits and avoiding losses.

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

I will try exercise my freedom of speech by avoiding legalities.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

Avoiding fear, sadness, or anger is not the same thing as being happy.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

I've got a really canny knack for avoiding big punches or clean punches.

We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

I have seen actresses avoiding food out of fear that beauty would be lost.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

Avoiding the physical sciences due to the fear that they will lead to heresy is childish.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.

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