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Quotes About Evasion

Porque es un poco así, el tiempo transcurre a hurtadillas, disimulando, no le vemos andar.
~ Carmen Martín Gaite
There are no shadows in the dark.
~ George R.R. Martin
In the dream they were only shadows, grey wraiths on horses made of mist.
~ George R.R. Martin
Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.
~ Margaret A. Robinson
If he can't reach you he can't hit youIf he can't hit you he can't hurt you
~ Arun D. Ellis
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
~ Mario Cuomo
During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat's yawn, "I think I will go to my grave now," and had left the room.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
~ T. S. Elliot
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
~ T.D. Jakes
A breath of sound across the landing, almost imperceptible, like a shadow moving against blackness; then nothing.
~ Tana French
The gods have said, and the Greeks also, that when a man wishes to evade his duties he can summon any illness to assist him
~ Taylor Caldwell
Some running backs do different things to get away. My move is to spin.
~ Le'Veon Bell
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
~ Joseph Conrad
Bulshytt: Speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said.
~ Neal Stephenson
circumlocution
~ Nelson DeMille
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
~ Richard Corliss
Nature is wont to hide herself.
~ Heraclitus
Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.
~ Victor Hugo
This man of lofty virtue had three domiciles in Paris solely for the purpose of evading the police.
~ Victor Hugo
Hay una manera de huir que parece buscar.
~ Victor Hugo
he wouldn't meet August's eyes. "Um . . ." he said after a time. "We'll be too far away." "I've got my camera with the super zoom." Seth buckled the belt and threw it back on the picnic table with a huge, jangly clank. Then he took August by the arm and led him around to the rear door of the motor home.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
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 evasive action.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
Don't struggle too hard to understand people, Sym. They're hideously complicated. 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 evasive action.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
~ German proverb