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Quotes About Evasion

When it comes to horror, I always prefer the nebulous & the implied to the physical & the described.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
There is a natural right that says that when the state asks you for a third of what you earned through back-breaking work, this seems to you a reasonable demand and you give in. If the state asks you for more, or much more, then it is a clear abuse against you and then you try to find evasive ways to make you feel coherent to your intimate sense of morality and it doesn't make you feel ethically guilty.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
He stared into the car to see the face of a child-killer, but saw only a blur. The
~ Simon Wood
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.
~ Tom Sharpe
thousand of Hal's getting away. Four
~ Max Brand
Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.
~ Meg Cabot
He didn't want to talk to Pol. Pol would want him to go somewhere on the back of a horse.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
She couldn't catch you anyways!
~ Mercedes
Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.
~ Mervyn Peake
I get sidetracked very easily.
~ Heather Donahue
Developing countries are losing significant tax revenues through corporate tax dodging.
~ Winnie Byanyima
Take me away from all this Death.
~ Stoker Bram
Is there a back way out?" "Yep, and
~ Stuart Woods
I felt I'd stumbled upon an amazing secret—it was possible to close your eyes and exit life without actually dying.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Se spariranno i libri, sparirà la storia, e spariranno anche gli esseri umani ... I libri non sono soltanto la somma arbitraria dei nostri sogni, e la nostra memoria. Ci offrono anche un modello di autotrascendenza. C'è chi pensa che la lettura sia soltanto una forma di evasione: un'evasione dal mondo «reale» di tutti i giorni, verso un mondo immaginario, il mondo dei libri. I libri sono molto di più. Sono una maniera per essere pienamente umani.
~ Susan Sontag
I suggest," Colin said, raising one brow into a perfectly debonair arch, "that we flee the scene.
~ Julia Quinn
He didn't want to talk about it, he didn't want listen to explanations.
~ Julia Quinn
Seit damals benutze ich das Lesen als Mittel, die Zeit zum Verschwinden zu bringen, und das Schreiben als Mittel, sie festzuhalten.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
and it's tricky because she always makes me feel like, well, you know what it's like, when somebody's watching you and you feel it like dead leaves down the back of your sweater...
~ Frances Hardinge
Whitman's art: to promise absolute self-revelation and give us fresh gestures of evasion, hesitation, concealment. Better thus, though Walt proclaimed: "I swear I dare not shirk any part of myself." Stevens learned from Whitman "the intricate evasions of as.
~ Harold Bloom
Jack! 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 an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.
~ Harper Lee
Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.
~ Harper Lee