Evasions Quotes

#1. So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

Anthony Bourdain

#2. It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

Jules Verne

#3. Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

Epictetus

#4. No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it
and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.

H.P. Lovecraft

#5. The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella
and was necessary to it.

Ian McEwan

#6. Though Argaven might be neither sane nor shrewd, he had had long practice in the evasions and challenges and rhetorical subtleties used in conversation by those whose main aim in life was the achievement and maintenance of the shifgrethor relationship on a high level.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#7. It was the first time I'd ever considered that gay might not just be about whom we slept with but a kind of sensibility, what survived of feeling after all the fears and evasions of the closet.

Paul Monette

#8. Look here, old sport," he broke out surprisingly. "What's your opinion of me, anyhow?" A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. What ability there is in an individual may be measured by the yardstick of how far there is between his understanding and his will. What a person can understand he must also be able to force himself to will. Between understanding and willing is where excuses and evasions have their being.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.

Robert Mondavi

#11. But what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?

Louisa May Alcott

#12. Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false and impotent when called upon to assist; the really great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#13. I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

William Beckett

#14. He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

John Ray

#15. What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.

Sylvia Plath

#16. I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

Alasdair Gray

#17. Nothing last forever not even your problems. The day will come that you will look back & say: I can't believe I made it through all that darkness and rain! Always keep the faith.

Timothy Pina

#18. We create beautiful and lasting things, build vast civilizations." "Gorgeous evasions," he said. "Great escapes.

Don DeLillo

#19. Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

Ted Turner

#20. Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.

Rudy Rucker

#21. And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

Alphonso Jackson

#22. This world is nothing but a trap. The only place where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

#23. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell

#24. Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication.

Charles Todd

#25. I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me
the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

Frank Lentricchia

#26. Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality.

Caitlin Thomas

#27. When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.

Maisie Williams

#28. I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.

Vladimir Nabokov

#29. Anything worthwhile is opposed.

Michael Hyatt

#30. True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

Robert Musil

#31. Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#32. He knew evil could never be vanquished. It just moved from one place to another and waited.

Michael Connelly