Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think for many people, if they started their planning earlier and had better deadlines, they could probably avoid it,

It dodged a bullet by avoiding punitive damages in this case. But if it is forced to clean up lead paint, the company's exposure could be huge.

Sophia Amoruso

I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.

Robert Burton

I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy.

Jean Chatzky

July is high burglary season because so many people leave town. To help avoid making that obvious, suspend your newspaper subscription and have your mail held. Another clear indication is if all your lights are off for an extended period. To fix that, you can buy a timer for about $30.

Mark Jenkins

You know, I find myself going over to university just to avoid it.

While we've been clear in reminding everyone that this was a possibility, we remained optimistic that there would be a way to avoid reaching this juncture. To date there has not been a firm offer put forward that meets the financial criteria necessary to continue operations as is.

Larry Graham

While we try to avoid changing budget amounts, it's necessary in most cases to make sure that the customer doesn't end up with a large debit or credit at the end of the year.

We can't evaluate the idea without having seen it, and maybe it's a darned fine one, but an offer that says, 'Please just go away and leave the science to us, ahem, very intelligent professionals,' is likely to get the reception it deserves. We get a lot of offers to butt out from folks who would rather avoid public scrutiny, and reputable scientists wouldn't feel comfortable in the company of most of them.

We were very interested in avoiding the fallacy that you can replicate on three completely different people the performance of the three other people.

Olof Mellberg

We're all just as competitive but as you see I haven't made any tackles like that here. You always try to avoid that kind of situation. It's something that happened but it wasn't good for anyone. It won't happen again.

Hanoi Hannah

Well, in our talks we said that if they were in Vietnam, how could they avoid the war zone and maybe they will get bad chance, maybe killed.

Richard Holbrooke

We hope to bring the parties back to the negotiating table, ... but the hope to avoid war is very small.

We hope to avoid a big catastrophe; it is possible, it is up to the international community and of course up to the national and local authorities.

Sarah Clarke

We have taken residential property, but I can't think of an incident where we have gone through a gated property. We want to avoid going through the middle of a community because it's not economically feasible for us.

He ran a lot at 2, so we just gave him some time off. We wanted to avoid some of the tougher spots and to see if he likes the grass.

Governments have to take tobacco seriously. The key message is that it is possible to avoid up to three million deaths a year.

Government officials should also be cautious about their comments or remarks to avoid hurting teachers' feelings.

Steve Carell

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

If even one family can avoid getting that phone call, in the middle of the night, because of this legislation, it would be well worth it.

Murray Bartlett

I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.

I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.

Jeff Lindsay

I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other writers who know a lot more than me about it. I know enough about it to do a little bit of background on laboratory techniques and stuff. But it kind of bores me.

I don't see how you can avoid the fact that the books are riddled with sadism, racism, sexism. In books, readers tend to skate over all these horrible ambiguities. The moment they're put on film, it's very difficult to duck them.

I don't see how we can avoid taking a hit and it will be coming right as we move into the Christmas buying season.

I don't see how this can end well. I think the perception is that the deal will collapse and it will be full legal employment for both sides. I cannot see how they can avoid this all ending up in court.

David Johnson

I don't see how he can avoid one, if he wants to get this behind him and the president.

Suzanne Somers

I balance my hormones with bioidentical hormones, I eat organic, I take supplements as determined by lab work, I sleep eight hours nightly, I use organic cosmetics and green household cleaners, and I avoid toxins as best I can.

Lynn Coady

I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.

I am a dare devil girl, who can even scare ghosts. During shooting, everybody tried to scare me but failed. However, I avoid watching scary movies because I feel so eerie.

Michael Showalter

I am a big proponent of writing a great outline. That way you can avoid hitting a roadblock. There is no worse feeling than writing yourself into a corner but if you've figured it all out in the outline then you won't have that problem.

Jacques Chirac

I fear we will not be able to progress as far as we should, ... avoid being blocked by a single country.

Margo Lanagan

I do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach.