Avoidable Quotes

You hate to let them walk out the door, but it's absolutely unavoidable... We knew what we were coming up to. We didn't wake up after the playoff loss to Pittsburgh and say, 'Oh, [shoot], look where we are with the cap.' We projected where our window was, and where we'd have to regroup. And we're clearly in the regrouping stage. But that regrouping doesn't mean we can't be good this season. We're not capitulating. - Brian Billick

You cannot have a bilateral agreement unilaterally implemented and unilaterally ignored... The unavoidable result would be the death of the agreement. - Ricardo Alarcon

Working with Troop A, we were successful in getting the Senate to approve a plan that would protect our first responders and prevent highway fatalities... Dozens of police officers and fire fighters have lost their lives in accidents that should have been avoidable. Our initiative instructs the Department of Transportation to develop model legislation that will increase awareness and help save lives. - Jim Talent

With cases of the deadly disease detected in Iran and India, Afghanistan is practically surrendered. Today we can say that an outbreak of the disease among birds in Afghanistan is virtually unavoidable. - Serge Verniau

We think this was an accident. It would have happened whether the driver was stone cold sober or not. It was just an unavoidable accident. I think that, unfortunately, these young ladies stepped out in front of the car. - Dick DeGuerin

We must improve the shared conditions in which we live, of course, but the essential purpose of that will be in order to inhabit more fully the necessary and unalterable terms of our existence. Take away the avoidable injustices of some lives that we may humanly share in the unavoidable injustice that is in all our lives. - William Mcilvanney

We have confidence that thanks to the patient and flexible efforts of the various parties, the six-party talks will be carried forward - despite that we are quite sure that some problems will be unavoidable. - Li Zhaoxing

We have absolutely no control over the introduction of the virus by migratory birds that are about to start returning from Africa to Siberia, Scandinavia and Greenland. It is unavoidable. - Jean Hars