Quotes About Evasion

Every time he thought they'd gone, he heard them again. Searching for him.

If Time is trying not to be found he is excellent and terrible at it — the days hide him so well — in our faces he is buried but not concealed he marks his territory...

I've only yet to see the apparition of enlightenment, and it always slips past in my periphery.

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

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 faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

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 faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

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, an evasion simply muddles 'em.

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

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 of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

He backed away and so did she.

My life, though, has been something (as only now at last I am able to see), but it is something that it has made of itself, not something that I have made of it. All I seem to have done is avoid wherever I could (so far) the man across the desk—for (so far) the world has afforded a little room for a few of us, lucky or blessed, to go around him. And now I wonder if I can die quickly enough and secretly enough to make the final evasion.

I should learn to be more craftily evasive, I thought: a bad evasion is tantamount to telling the truth.

He had felt no pain, not once, none. He had closed his eyes and taken his brain away. That was the secret. If you could take your brain away from the present and sent it to where it could contemplate skin like wintry cream; well, let them enjoy themselves.

Your first lesson, princess, is to know how to sidestep questions you don't want to answer. You do it by ignoring them.

the most delightful and choicest pleasure is that which is hinted at, but never told.

I'd like to quote the lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein—something that's extremely easy to do when you're in a library near 782.14 and all those magnificent Broadway show tunes—'I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly!'

how to escape predetermination, the mechanical sign of the meal... is not an evasion of a social-gender role; it's not regression. It is an active stance: the rejection of the cynicism that this culture hands us through its food, the creation of an involuted body.

But who is being compelled? She herself? And to what end? To make her stay? --Let's put all the evasions behind us. No: the compulsion to make her stand and be recognized. Useless to pretend it's for her sake. Once and for all, she doesn't need us. So we should be certain of one thing: that it's for our sake. Because it seems we need her.

I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

Ich habe Angst vor dieser Erscheinung, aber wenn man viel trinkt, dann geht das schon wieder weg.

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.

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Yes, the Americans and the British were alike in some things. They were surface people, skimming over past history, picking out the interpretations that pleased them, never digging deep for the truths that could warn them. When they found something unpleasant, they would forget it within months. They even prided themselves on not remembering; forget and forgive were so much easier. They evaded serious ideas, unless they approved of them.