Evasion Quotes
60 quotes by 57 authors
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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men…
— William Faulkner
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ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term; it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as…
— Chapman Cohen
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Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is…
— Ben Ames Williams
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
— Langston Hughes
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No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services,…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us…
— Dean Koontz
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Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear?…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in…
— Stephen Batchelor
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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to…
— Mario Cuomo
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He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any…
— John L. Parker Jr.
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
— Fernando Pessoa
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So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will…
— Peter Weir
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Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality
— Jeff Buckley
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Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still…
— Hyman Rickover
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No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks…
— John F. Kennedy
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The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
— Ayn Rand
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Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Living consciously reflects the conviction that sight is preferable to blindness; that respecting the facts of reality is more satisfying than denying them; that evasion…
— Nathaniel Branden
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To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless. Spiritual warriors can still…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white†or “everybody…
— Ayn Rand
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