Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ducking and hiding, I'm not sure. Avoiding what's inevitable? Yes.

Dr. Thomas knew I made the right decision by avoiding surgery. Everything is going like we planned. But I had to work hard and that's what I have been doing.

Especially if you're in contract negotiations, you help yourself a lot in terms of good will by avoiding layoffs, ... I think the industry has been pretty rational.

Susannah McCorkle

Feeling totally immobilized. Can't even listen to music, except classical. Avoiding people so word won't get around how down I am." ()

At the forefront for me this year is staying consistent every week and avoiding the peaks and valleys. I want to be a rock for the offense each week so my teammates know what to expect for me, just doing my job.

Tom Ridge

They tell us that avoiding panic and confusion in a crisis helps them do their jobs better. So when you protect yourself, you're protecting your community, and it's one less concern that the first responders have at the time of an incident,

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Mal Peet

It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

It's a tough area. South of the school, there are high- and upper-middle-class citizens - lots of doctors, lawyers, teachers and principals. North of the school, where Jerome lived, you have the inner city. It's a pretty tough area. Jerome and his parents did a great job avoiding the pitfalls of that.

Now it's a matter of damage control for the union. They may be looking for a face-saving maneuver to rejuvenate the membership, while avoiding the permanent loss of jobs.

Roberto Goizueta

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Steven Pinker

The three-year-old, then, is a grammatical genius - master of most constructions, obeying rules farmore often than flouting them, respecting language universals, erring in sensible, adultlike ways, and avoiding many kinds of errors altogether.

Jason Collins

Sometimes we're not following the game plans. It's a collective effort. It's everybody and we have to do a better job of avoiding it.

These projects are aimed at avoiding possible oil supply interruptions and restraining global crude oil prices.

Avoiding the sex offender registry ought to be a felony. If you have that felony status, police could (immediately) arrest.

Jon Daniels

Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.

George Washington

Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic

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

That (pass) was a great play. You guys have been following me with Hooton, and I just can't explain it. He just can't get points. I've never seen anything like it and I can't figure it out because he doesn't have a lot of flaws. He's got great hands, shoots well and competes his tail off, but he's just got a way of avoiding points.

Fred Thompson

That should be an example for us: You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

The risk you can't do anything about feels scarier than the one you can. Washing your hands a lot, sneezing into your elbow, knowing that avoiding crowded places if there's a flu epidemic of any kind, those are applicable. They're emotionally reassuring in the face of some new threat. New threats are always scarier than ones we've lived with for a while. It's just their newness.

Sathya Baba

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

Alan Greenspan

Indeed, our goal, in responding to the complexity of current economic forces, is to extend the expansion by containing imbalances and avoiding the very recession that would complete a business cycle,

In many cases, captive colonies will be our only short-term way of avoiding extinction.

Consumer spending is avoiding the mall-based, high-priced stores and is now drifting rapidly to the discount and low-priced segment.

The airline's already slim chances of avoiding bankruptcy are dwindling rapidly.

System-level coverage is essential to maintaining product design freedom and avoiding supply-chain disruptions.

Craig Armstrong

It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.

Jarno Trulli

It was a bit of a gamble and as it turned out it was not the right choice. When I came out I was barely able to maintain the pace of the safety car and we went to the back after we stopped again. I worked my way back up through the field but late on I was following Monteiro when he accidently hit the pit limiter button. I had no way of avoiding him and I hit him, losing my front wing and going off into the wall.

David Allen

I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on the front end and then endured much more excruciating ones on the back end.

Dusty Baker

They're avoiding him because he can hit you out of the ballpark. It doesn't have to do with anything but that. That's it. I don't believe any manager would let personal feelings - no matter how they feel - get in the way. They're trying to win games.

Investors are avoiding large-cap technology shares before Friday's SQ and GDP. Instead, they are picking up individual stocks that offer a special interest, such as biotech stocks.

Dara Horn

I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story.