Evasive Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on… — Nathan Farragut Twining
Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because youâ€™re timid… — Saul Bass
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and… — Harold Brodkey
And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look… — Margaret Atwood
If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with… — Confucius
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at… — Gerhard Richter
I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past… — Bo Bice
People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it. — Priyanka Chopra
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive… — Ingmar Bergman
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes… — Charles Horton Cooley
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. — Margaret Thatcher
It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the… — C.S. Lewis
He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a… — Margaret Atwood
Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take… — Geraldine McCaughrean
Impossible, I realize, to enter anotherâ€™s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small… — Paul Auster
Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages."… — E. Lockhart
I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt… — E. Lockhart
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I decided to go along with it. If he tried to give me the runaround, I would bolt. I didn't have time to waste on… — Amanda Hocking
I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be… — John Anderson

Who Wrote These Evasive Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 22 Evasive Quotes as follows: