Quotes About Evasion

The best way to not get caught was to not be seen

Let's get out of here, my mother said.

A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

haven't seen hide nor hair of her

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

To leave the everpresent tension of Great Meadow was like shedding stiff, formal clothes or kicking off pinching shoes.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets.

It was the way he lived. He could walk out of that building at a moment's notice and leave behind no personal trace.

Alessandro learned yet again that the joy of escape is better than the joy of merely being free.

I found a note he'd left behind entitled 'Ciao': One just keeps saying, 'No...No...No...' Head bowed, hat in hand, A cringing, cunning little step back, With each dialectical evasion, Retreating, receding, 'no...no...no...' Until one simply disappears...

after which he followed up with the style of "Stealing Peaches beneath the Leaves

Faith allows an evasion of those difficulties which the atheist confronts honestly. And to crown all, the believer derives a sense of great superiority from this very cowardice itself.

Don't make me sit through reality.

Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse.

For knitting composed the mind; knitting served the necessary means of evasion; knitting constituted not only an escape, but a tangible protection, from husbands.

The more injured you are by time, the more you seek to escape it.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

At tax time, people are going to say, 'Gee, if the IRS asks for documents from me, and I destroy them, I wouldn't get away with that.' But that's effectively what Commissioner Koskinen has been able to get away with.

There was only one way to get through the rest of the evening and it wasn't sober.

I say nothing, because I was able to get Barack Obama to produce [birth certificate]. He should have produced it a long time before. I say nothing.