
“Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: The Courage to Be
“Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma
“The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.”
In parliament.
[Falkiner, C. Litton, Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century, 1902, Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, Sir Boyle Roche, p.229]
“The only way to avoid No Deal is to vote for a deal.”
Brexit: Corbyn tells May to rule out no deal at meeting https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47052227 BBC News (30 January 2019)
2010s, On Brexit
“The only way to avoid becoming a metaphysician is to say nothing.”
Often misquoted or paraphrased as "The only way to avoid metaphysics is to say nothing." Cf. on the next page, "you cannot avoid metaphysics".
Source: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1925), p. 224
“The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.”
Concurring, Western Pacific Railroad Corp. v. Western Pacific Railroad Co., 345 U.S. 247, 270 (1953).
Judicial opinions
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 7.