Quotes About Evasion

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

The story of drug-taking constitutes one of the most curious and also, it seems to me, one of the most significant chapters in the natural history of human beings. Everywhere and at all times, men and women have sought, and duly found, the means of taking a holiday from the reality of their generally dull and often acutely unpleasant existence. A holiday out of space, out of time, in the eternity of sleep and ecstasy, in the heaven or the limbo of visionary phantasy.

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

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

All I wanted then was for everything to go on as before, so that I could stay deeply asleep, and be no more than a hole in space, not here or anywhere at all, for as long as possible, preferably forever.

Look around you and you see plenty of prosperous businessmen splurging money like there was no tomorrow but paying no taxes.

I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

Et vif comme la pensée, il m'échappa, dévalant la pente comme l'ombre d'un nuage quand le vent souffle

By remaining silent in the face of criticism, he thought he would seem confident and secure in his integrity—in fact, he seemed guilty and arrogantly evasive.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Don't make me sit through reality.

Detestaba la palabra «evasión» aplicada a la ficción. Podría haber argumentado, y no solo por llevar la contraria, que la evasión era la vida real.

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

I'm really good at evading punches.

Anyway, we were both busy ducking

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.

Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry.

This blend of truth and evasion was to characterise future legend. Todd did encounter words like blades but, as mouthpiece for the family, never mentions this, any more than Jane Austen's family saw fit to mention her sarcasms. Nineteenth-century families project an image of an authoress as retiring lady whose gift shades into an uneventful life. Nothing could be said of sickness, love, adultery or the rising fire of the feud.

American, Swiss, and Japanese taxpayers are pretty honest. So are most of the other Western European democracies. Greece, Spain, and Italy are not. In fact, the level of tax evasion in Greece is such that the country's deficit—which is so large that Greece has teetered on the brink of outright bankruptcy for years—would all but disappear if Greek citizens obeyed the law and paid what they owed.