Quotes About Deflection

Count Rugen was a bit surprised that his point had been deflected, but there was nothing wrong with piercing a helpless man's shoulder.

I wear my sunglasses. Keeps you on one side and me on the other.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

It is thus always by virtue of a declination of meaning, or of non-meaning, that existence takes on form - by virtue, that is, of the deflection of something else. We have no will of our own, and the other is never what we would, of our own volition, choose to confront. Rather, the other is an invasion by something from elsewhere, priority given to what comes from elsewhere, seduction by foreignness and the transmission of foreignness.

I never use pull-offs because I don't like the sort of 'meow' sound they make with the string being deflected sideways.

But existence is a deflection.

Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise, no one could have deflected me from my path.

Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly.

I don't want to be the one accused of ruining the Smurfs.

esa imperiosa necesidad de culpar a los otros, que es patrimonio específico de los corazones inferiores.

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

what-aboutery," the practice of diverting attention from the difficulty under discussion by raising a different problematic issue. ("Never mind X, what about Y?")

furniture designers, incredibly, are not taught during their formal training how to calculate the deflection in an ordinary bookshelf when it is loaded with books,

She deflected direct questions with the skill of a fencing champ, with little parries that left us still engaged but pointed a few degrees off center.

Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this. "Nice socks." Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are bet­ter than none.

Hild realised her mother had deflected her somehow, as she always did.