Evasion Quotes

60 quotes by 57 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. — Fernando Pessoa
• 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
• Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality — Jeff Buckley
• 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
• 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
• The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats. — Ayn Rand
• Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion. — Eleanor Roosevelt
• 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
• 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
• 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

Who Wrote These Evasion Quotes

57 authors contributed a total of 60 Evasion Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Evasion Quotes by Harper Lee
• 2 Evasion Quotes by Jeff Buckley
• 2 Evasion Quotes by Ayn Rand
• 1 Evasion Quote by Louis Kronenberger
• 1 Evasion Quote by Sylvia Plath
• 1 Evasion Quote by Thomas Frank
• 1 Evasion Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot
• 1 Evasion Quote by George C. Marshall
• 1 Evasion Quote by William Faulkner
• 1 Evasion Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge
• 1 Evasion Quote by Chapman Cohen
• 1 Evasion Quote by Gilbert Parker
• 1 Evasion Quote by Ben Ames Williams
• 1 Evasion Quote by Wesley Snipes
• 1 Evasion Quote by Langston Hughes
• 1 Evasion Quote by Joan Didion
• 1 Evasion Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
• 1 Evasion Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Evasion Quote by Dean Koontz
• 1 Evasion Quote by Charles Bukowski
• 1 Evasion Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti
• 1 Evasion Quote by Hermann Hesse
• 1 Evasion Quote by Stephen Batchelor
• 1 Evasion Quote by Mario Cuomo
• 1 Evasion Quote by Nhat Hanh