Deflects Quotes

#1. 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.

Clayton Christensen

#2. The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

Mark Levin

#3. the norebang we could pretend, but not out here. It's one of the things I like most about New York City. It deflects any attempts you make

Nicola Yoon

#4. The creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

Grace S. Richmond

#5. Happiness is not our goal. The achievement of happiness deflects us from our true destiny which is the utter realization of self.

Timothy Findley

#6. Proverbs 15:1-3 1 A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare. 2 The tongue of the wise makes knowledge appealing, but the mouth of a fool belches out foolishness.

Anonymous

#7. God, Packard! Do you know how hard I worked at
it?" I twist up the napkin and whip it at him.
He deflects it. "There we go; I knew you could do it."
My mouth falls open. "Very funny."
He just laughs.
"I can't believe you!

Carolyn Crane

#8. Blue Moon,
You saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.

Lorenz Hart

#9. people who ran away are friends!

Bilal Tanweer

#10. There have been so many times over the years where people have said "Man, I thought I was just coming to this deal to get a little handier with my horse" and I'll say "Well, in the beginning, I thought that's all you were coming for too. But it turns out it's about something else."

Buck Brannaman

#11. Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#12. Both sides said, "I don't need you," and both answered, "You'll still stay.

Seanan McGuire

#13. Advice and love are the only things I can give you for free.

Jason Medina

#14. So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when
the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes
greater than the energy content of the oil, production
will cease no matter what the monetary price may
be.

M. King Hubbert

#15. Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art.

Robert Barry

#17. I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.

Thomas Lewis

#18. I'm still working on my time machine. If I ever perfect it, I'm going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made. And then I'm going after Hitler.

Andy Kindler

#19. Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

Daniel Craig

#20. I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.

Justin Cronin

#21. That's how pathetic things had gotten. I'd actually sat alone in the darkness lusting after a girl like some fucking Robert Pattinson wannabe. At least I smoked instead of sparkled.

Joanna Wylde