Evasions Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to deconstruct? Someone who… — Ann Coulter
Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand… — Caitlin Thomas
True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end. — Robert Musil
I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only… — Frank Lentricchia
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. — Alasdair Gray
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of… — George Orwell
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of… — George Orwell
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious… — Vladimir Nabokov
The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and… — Ian Mcewan
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is… — Epictetus
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my… — Anais Nin
It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me. — Jules Verne
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely… — Gore Vidal

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