Quotes About Deflection

Lorsqu'on ne peut attaquer le message, on attaque le messager.

The more painful incidents of racism I chose to forget, to suffer in silence, or use humour to deflect rather than confront. I didn't want to be the angry black man.

Et puis s'accuser tous azimuts, on se met à l'abri de bien des exigences. (p.116)

At this point, Chester started to bathe his tail, which is a cat's way of changing a subject he finds uncomfortable.

So much of Sue Sylvester, the angry woman, came from that part of my life, wanting to crush other people's dreams and judging others so harshly, which is always just a way of deflecting your own self-judgment.

Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?

Darkness does something to a place, doesn't it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can do no harm.

The mind has a way of protecting the heart, of turning one's gaze in a certain direction, away from what it should focus on. One

I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector. So brilliant that I could get a full scholarship to college and major in it, except why bother? I've already mastered the art.

There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.

I am rubber but you are blue. Whatevers you are saying bounces off of me and I do not remember the rest.

A gyroscope kept the torpedo on course, adjusting for vertical and horizontal deflection. The track lingered on the surface like a long pale scar. In maritime vernacular, this trail of fading disturbance, whether from ship or torpedo, was called a "dead wake.

the blade have been deflected?

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

If someone is complaining about the question or the questioner rather than providing an answer, they're usually trying to change the subject.

those it prizes from any aggression they arouse by deflecting it.

There was danger, he felt, of overrunning himself, and he had to hold onto his awareness of the present, sensing the blurred deflection of experience, the flowing moment, the continual solidification of that-which-is into the perpetual-was.

I'm rubber and you're glue, and whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.

Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.

I think Jesus would have said, "It's not about me." During his lifetime, he deflected attention from himself. In an illuminating passage in our earliest gospel, when a man addressed him as "Good Teacher," Jesus responded with, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone."22

She who cannot control herself cannot control the path to duty. Do not fight the waves of anger, use the anger as your fuel. Inhale. Exhale. Sidestep. Circumvent. Deflect.

It's like Janine, though, to take it upon herself, to decide the baby's flaws were due to her alone. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

It's like Janine, though, to take it upon herself, to decide the baby's flaws were due to her alone. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.   One