Dodge Quotes

• All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

  William Halsey

  Motivational, Success, Action

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• Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Fear, Arguing, Argument

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1905.

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• It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

  Josiah Stamp

  Integrity, Responsibility, Community

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• You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hurt, Years, Sometimes

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• There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

  Johnny Cash

  Death, Grief, Loss

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• Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

  Stendhal

  Art, Science, Logic

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• If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

  Rip Torn

  Underdog, Balls, Dodgeball

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• My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.

  Jessica Savitch

  Girl, Jobs, College

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• I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

  George H. W. Bush

  Thinking, Political, Politics

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• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  Larry Speakes

  Lying, Political, Politics

  "Speakes Defines His Role In Shaping Events" by Leslie H. Gelb, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 1986.

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• Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Men, Beats, Difficulty

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• Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

  William Osler

  Fleeting, Minutes, Bores

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• I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

  Muhammad Ali

  Brother, Rocks, Bob

  Twitter post from Jul 05, 2010

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• Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.

  Richard Bach

  Ems, Earth, Problem

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• That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

  Lauren Miller

  Funny, Life, Time

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• I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

  Matt Damon

  Trying, Labels, Kind

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• You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

  Douglas Adams

  Responsibility

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.355, Del Rey

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• Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Doors, Sky, Bird

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• All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

  Dustin Diamond

  Stars, Children, Growing Up

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• Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.

  Gordon Getty

  Civilization, Ideas, My Family

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• Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

  Frank Miller

  Horse, Artist, Thinking

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• It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

  Josh Billings

  Elephants, Worry, Littles

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• America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.

  D. H. Lawrence

  America, People, Society

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• Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again.

  Mira Grant

  Baby, Growing Up, Games

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• People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

  Aleister Crowley

  Pain, Exercise, Thinking

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.7, Weiser Books

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