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Quotes About Evading

Esiste un modo di evitare che somiglia al cercare
~ Victor Hugo
Hay una manera de huir que parece buscar.
~ Victor Hugo
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
~ Thomas Sowell
Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for the re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.
~ Charles Yu
Every time he thought they'd gone, he heard them again. Searching for him.
~ Charlie Higson
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
~ Jane Austen
A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?
~ Chris Abani
Tsunami was drilling RainWings in evasive maneuvers, although apparently what that actually meant was a lot of yelling things like "Pay attention!" and "Leave that toucan alone!" and "Why are you pink? Stop being pink!" and "THREE MOONS, ARE YOU EATING AGAIN?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
As an internationally frictionless private currency founded by millionaires and billionaires, Libra would mostly be used, not by individuals to buy goods and services — but by people like its founders to move capital with much greater ease. Evading capital controls is strongly promoted by the Bitcoin subculture as a use case for cryptocurrency — as Libra's creators well know.
~ David Gerard
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.
~ Italo Calvino
Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don't want to do.
~ John Kennedy Toole
For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.
~ Marcel Proust
In evading his question, she'd given him his answer. His father had heard voices in his madness and now Raphael heard them, too.
~ Nalini Singh