Quotes About Evasion

Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.

Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.

The avoidance of reality has pervaded our language and even the way we understand what's happening around us, as the late comedian George Carlin pointed out. People have invented a 'soft language' to insulate themselves from the truth, he said, 'toilet paper became bathroom tissue … The [garbage] dump became a landfill … Partly cloudy became partly sunny.

Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.

A very small proportion of the country's black money is in the movie industry. Because we are written about, public attention is focused on us. Do you think there is no black money in other businesses? With the exception of government servants and others who have tax deducted at source, there are tax evaders in every walk of life.

I am always running away from something.

Everywhere you looked, there it wasn't.

We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it

To me, a tax heaven is where everyone pays their fair share. In that respect, I am not quite sure we are in tax heaven yet.

El yogui hindú, luchando por la liberación, se identifica con la Luz y nunca regresa. Pero nadie con la voluntad de servir a otros se permitiría semejante evasión. El objetivo último de la hazaña no debe ser ni la liberación ni la felicidad personales, sino la sabiduría y el poder para servir a los demás».

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all

There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday

Disappear, she says. I love that word.

Russian Laundromat?

I've always found it best to avoid the truth. It invariably leads to unnecessary complications.

Sometimes we act in order not to see.

At this point, Chester started to bathe his tail, which is a cat's way of changing a subject he finds uncomfortable.

I became expert at making myself invisible.

His mind, shrinking from reality, ran for safety along these unimportant details.

There is nothing so dangerous for any one who has something to hide as conversation!

Charles doesn't go out of a room—he 'makes an exit

Quite unconsciously he backed away a little towards the door. Inspector Neele noted the movement.

Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew for sure if the tone was subtly comprehensive, or just a form of cowardice.