Evasion Quotes

60 Evasion quotes by 57 unique authors

It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and evenif need beto resort to all sorts… — Vladimir Lenin
A daydream is an evasion. — Thomas Merton
People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the… — Jeremy Northam
The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion. — George Papandreou
In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things… — Louis Kronenberger
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. — Sylvia Plath
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion. — Thomas Frank
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion. — George C. Marshall
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. — Malcolm Muggeridge
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set… — Gilbert Parker
I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester. — Wesley Snipes
That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact… — Joan Didion
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our… — William Shakespeare
soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m.,… — Charles Bukowski
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary… — Hermann Hesse
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot… — Harper Lee
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. — Nhat Hanh
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard… — Harold Pinter
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he… — Stacy Schiff
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot… — Harper Lee
The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary… — Nicole Krauss
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ... — Ian Mcewan

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