Quotes About Evasion

The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect, and a hard tax to evade.

Love is the way that life forgets that it is terminal. Love is life's alibi in the face of death.

Cómo te las arreglaste para desaparecer tan pronto? Un disfraz tan completo y efectivo es difícil de obtener - Con dinero se consigue todo -repuso Anderton evasivamente

People don't like the uncanny, and rather than look fully at something disturbing, they'll avoid it altogether.

But instead she freezes. She looks away, as if she can ignore her way out of it.

Where did you go? Around. The weather was good? Yeah. It didn't rain? Nope. That's good. Yeah. Talking like this is like throwing small, round stones __ nothing can be built from them, except perhaps the cairn of a lost conversation.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

the object again lifted off the ground and glided smoothly away in total silence. Again they tried to gain ground, but each time the object repeated the frustrating maneuver. It was clearly watching and reacting to them, trying to keep them at arm's length. Beneath his nervousness, Tom felt a spark of outrage. Who the hell do they think they are? he thought angrily.

I will leave no memoirs.

You can't hunt a man if he's searching for you

You can disguise its aggressiveness all you want with veils of subordinate clauses and qualifiers and tentative subjunctives, with ellipses and evasion—with the whole manner of intimating rather than claiming, of alluding rather than stating—but there's no getting around the fact that setting words on paper is the tactic of a secret bully, an invasion, an imposition of the writer's sensibility on the reader's most private space.

Something deep within him, what it was he had no leisure nor skill to recognize, seemed to retreat down long dim corridors away from the doom that impeded. He hadn't known he had those convenient corridors of evasion in him, with their protective turns and angles by which to put distance between himself and menace. Oh clever architect of the Mind, oh merciful blueprints that made such emergency exits available.

She didn't want to make anything right. She wanted to make it all go away.

What do poems have to do with an ethics of conviviality? Poems are beginners. The urgent social abjection of the poem might act as shelter to a gestured vernacular. Covertly the poem transforms that vernacular to a prosodic gift whose agency flourishes in the bodily time of an institutional and economic evasion. Let us suppose here that poems are those commodious anywheres that might evade determination by continuously inviting their own dissolution in semantic distribution. In

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

The best day… is the first to flee.

The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.

Lust is less a physical need than a way of forgetting time and death.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Live you can evade; death you cannot.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Life you can evade; death you cannot.