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Quotes About Deflected

She looked down at Miles, though, and her lips softened with a helpless smile. Miles grinned back like a loon; Richars's blackest glare in his direction slid off him as though deflected by a force field.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Somehow the Tories have deflected the righteous anger at the bankers who we bailed out. The Tories manage to take that outrage and direct it at benefit claimants. It's genius. Evil genius.
~ Bill Bailey
When we see a planet being "deflected by the force of gravity," Einstein says it is really just traveling in a straight line.
~ Sean Carroll
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
~ Robert Higgs
We are not dissatisfied with our choices and with what life has given us, but when we meet we both have a curious and not unpleasant impression that a veil, a breath, a throw of the dice deflected us onto two divergent paths, which were not ours.
~ Primo Levi
Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.
~ Michelle Sagara West