Avoid

Famous quotes containing the word avoid:

“Bill: I think maybe you have to come up with excuses just to avoid the moment of truth.
Lili: What?
Bill: In a word, Miss Smith, I think it’s just possible you’re a virgin.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)

“And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)