Quotes About Evasion

For many years, I used to run to the opposite direction when I saw photographers.

People wanna escape the truth sometimes.

Trump would rather submerge himself in the lake of fire for a thousand years than talk about Russia again. It's the subject he can never avoid, never fully wash out.

To everything else, I say, Miss me with that.

What people don't understand they just push away to the far corners of their minds and eventually it fades away and gets forgotten. 'Cause it's safer that way.

You can't catch me outside.

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.

A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.

Surely the mask and tattooing have a surprising element in common: they both seek to bring about a transformation by obliterating the real skin. But of course, there were points of difference too. Fundamentally the mask was something removable, but tattooing was assimilated and incorporated into the skin. The mask, moreover, furnished an evasion of reality, but tattooing, of course, was an effort to make oneself obvious and showy.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

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

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.

You know the most common phrase in the movies is 'let's get out of here?

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself. It will look at first like disaster, but is really good fortune in disguise, since fate too knows how to follow your evasions through a hundred forms of its own. Now you will become at last the one you intended to be.

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

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

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

I love running. I'm not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate.

I got up and stared at myself in the bathroom mirror, first thinking about how great I looked, then thinking about how the cops weren't going to catch me.

She could only gather, from the silences and evasions amid which she moved, that a woman had turned up—a woman who was of course dreadful, and whose dreadfulness appeared to include a sort of shadowy claim upon Arthur. But the claim, whatever it was, had been promptly discredited.