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

- John D. MacDonald

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

- Virginia Woolf

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

- Tom Cruise

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

- Sylvia Kristel

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

- Syd Barrett

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.

- Pattie Boyd

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

- Paul Tillich

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

- P. J. O'Rourke

Success means making profits and avoiding losses.

- Martin Zweig

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

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

- John Cleese

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

- Henry Petroski

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

- Eli Roth

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

- Edsger Dijkstra

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

- Dan Abrams

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

- Bill Johnson

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

- Bill O'Reilly

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

- Amy Bloom