Adversity Quote by Baltasar Gracian

“When you use evasion, avoidance and misdirection to protect yourself from hard questions and even harder answers, you're letting your ego get in the…

— Bernardo Moya

Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went…

— Paulo Coelho

Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.

— Hudson Taylor

“Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to…

— Idries Shah

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is…

— Henry Miller

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

— Harper Lee

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

— Ayn Rand

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

— Ayn Rand

“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before…

— Peter Stafford

“A politician often uses an example or analogy as an attempt to make us forget the question he or she is supposedly answering.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

— Friedrich Nietzsche