Quotes About Evasion

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...

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 was necessary to it.

There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative. One need not accept responsibility for the world as it is, and by extension, one need do nothing about it.

Running away never feels as fast, never as far, as it should.

A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

lie can run but they can't hide

And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.

It turns out that magical mice high on incense are really good at not being caught.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Você segue e segue mais adiante…e de uma caminhada como essa jamais voltará a tempo, pois você escapa ao tempo e o tempo escapa de você.

The religious answer is not really religious if it's not fully real. Evasion is the answer of superstition.

Unsafe at Any Speed is a classic of propaganda in its ability to use distracting or dismissive rhetoric to evade a need to confront opposing arguments with evidence or logic.

That afternoon, I begin to learn the wisdom of keeping my feelings to myself, a lesson reinforced often during a childhood of female warfare and tricky, shifting alliances, so often that my genius for envasion at last approaches that of my mother. She may sleep with a mask, but by the time I am a teenager I have made one within myself, I have hidden my heart.

We may suck at breaking in to places, but we're money at sneaking out !

time zig-zags like a running man avoiding bullets

It's not good to stare too long at the Mire. It might look back.

You're the one who's not supposed to be here." She hoped he didn't hear the squeak in her normally reliable voice. "How am I supposed to snoop if you don't leave when you say you're going to?

he doesn't meet my eyes.

Where does one run to escape from feelings?

Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth.

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., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.

For it is so with time and memory: the seed of our deepest feeling is buried under the rush of a momentary and violent one, there is in all feeling a quality of deception and evasion, and the meanings of the spirit become evident only in the light of a dispassionate distance

The most prolific and accomplished hunters were not the most bloodthirsty and indefatigable. They were the most cool and empathetic. They were the ones who were able to assimilate their quarry's mind-set--to see through the eyes of their prey and thus reliably predict its deft, innate trajectories of evasion.