Avoiding Quotes - Page 23

• It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Other Girl

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of small furry things treading very carefully in the hope of finding dinner while avoiding being the main course.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Night, Air

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• Magnus got to his feet. “I do believe that's my cue to leave as well,” he said. Clary noticed he was avoiding looking at Alec. “I'd say it's been nice meeting you all, but, in fact, it hasn't. It's been quite awkward, and frankly, the next time I see a single one of you will be far too soon.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Believe, Feet

  "City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments)". Book by Cassandra Clare, March 25, 2008.

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• I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Boys, Wonder

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

  Ann Brashares

  Self, Usual, Routine

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• Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very situations and thoughts and feelings that make the novel worthwhile, the worse I feel, and the more likely I am to be severely depressed when the book is finished. There is no avoiding this: it is the result of attempting to tell all you know, to reach for the stars, to write what matters.

  Anne Rice

  Stars, Book, Character

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• That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though.

  Veronica Roth

  Mean, Dark, Order

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• I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Hard Work, Son

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• If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.

  Jim Stovall

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Small Problems

  Jim Stovall (2011). “The Ultimate Journey: A Novel”, p.79, David C Cook

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• Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

  Tom Regan

  Learning, Animal, Rights

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• Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.

  Philip Neri

  Fall, Humility, Men

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• Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.

  Randy Alcorn

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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• Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Method, Constructive, Offers

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• With the RED, I didn't have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera. I didn't relate to it as much. I remember avoiding it during the shooting rather than paying attention to it.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Cameras, Attention, Shooting

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Team, Addiction, Marketing

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The people who are showing up [on the Republican National Convention ], either they are ones who actually believe in Donald Trump, or they think there's enough they care about, sort of keeping the party afloat and avoiding a sweeping loss in the centre of the house, they're going to show up and give him some kind of base.

  Mark Colvin

  Party, Believe, Loss

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

  George Burns

  Funny, Stress, Humor

  George Burns (1989). “How to live to be 100--or more: the ultimate diet, sex, and exercise book”, Plume

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• But always think this: do not be afraid of failure. Do not be afraid of falling. In the art of walking, what is important is not avoiding the fall but not remaining fallen.

  Pope Francis

  Art, Fall, Thinking

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• When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Blame, About Yourself, Criticize

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Sep 06, 2011

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• Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 12, 2014

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