Quotes About Evasion

T. S. Eliot: LIFE YOU MAY EVADE, BUT DEATH YOU SHALL NOT.

They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.

I've avoided success artfully.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away over the branches as if she were flying, with him clambering after her, and that skirt of hers always in his face

When she'd skillfully turned it back towards the herd, Rebecca lifted an arm to wave at Jake, her smile vis­ible even from this distance. He felt a familiar tightening in his loins. How many times had he watched her ride across the Lazy A, experienced the same stirrings, and rid­den away so she'd never know what his true feelings were? He didn't have to ride away today. He could watch her graceful movements to his heart's content.

He stole her breath, as stealthily as a pickpocket slipping a silk handkerchief from a pocket, a bracelet from around a wrist, a ring off a finger. So the object was gone before the wearer realized it was taken. One moment she was breathing, and the next she'd quite simply forgotten how.

No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.

And Peter, with his 20/20 vision, cast his eyes downward, so that he wouldn't see.

When I say, 'It's a long story,' it usually means I just don't want to tell you.

Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.

If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.

Of course you hate getting angry!" she retorted. "You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like!

You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like!

Those are serious questions. Let me avoid them as best I can.

to take steps to avoid

He denied everything he had said about carrying the two Glasgow letters from Mary to Bothwell.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don't want to do.

An escapists' life is summarized by one word; RUN.

Bad humour is an evasion of reality; good humour is an acceptance of it.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".

Taking your life is just an excuse to run away from your problems. Permanently.