Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

- Andrew Sullivan

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

- B. F. Skinner

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

- Andy Summers

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

- Andy Summers

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

- Alan Cumming

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

- Adam Schiff

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

- Aubrey de Grey

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

- Anthony Horowitz

I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

- Annette Bening

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.

- Anne Tyler

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

- Abraham Lincoln

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

- Andre Maurois

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

- Andre Maurois

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

- Andre Maurois

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

- Alton Brown

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

- Alan Thicke

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

- Anthony Bourdain

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

- Annie Lennox

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

- Adora Svitak