Quotes About Deflection

#1. The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

Evelyn Underhill

#2. I remain too impressed with Freud's vision of the human animal's compromise with existence
the defense or deflection of our ego in knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves
to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.

Stanley Cavell

#3. 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.

David Jeremiah

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

Eric Cantona

#5. In my experience the most forceful and aggressive mothers are always the least inspired, the most unmusical of souls, all of them profoundly unsuccessful women who wear their daughter's image on their breast like a medal, like a bright deflection from their own unshining selves.

Eleanor Catton

#6. Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality,

Kenneth Burke

#7. I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away with that deflection. I think it may have helped to introduce Brian as a believable gay man. Maybe not. However it played, it's been out of my hands for a long time.

Gale Harold

#8. I'm not that hard to get to know, really." He flashed me a quick smile. "But you ... I think you've made an art form out of deflection and self-possession.

Samantha Young

#9. Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

Erwin Chargaff

#10. I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have a shot of less than 20 degrees deflection and until I'm within 300 yards. Good discipline on this score can make up for a great deal.

John C. Meyer

#11. I accept your deflection and raise you another question.

Jessica Park

#12. Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

Kenneth Burke

#13. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.

Denis Waitley

#14. He had decided that what was going on was that everybody was very carefully avoiding paying attention to what was going on.

Robert Anton Wilson

#15. There is no animal more invincible than a woman,

Loretta Chase

#16. You're already dead inside. Years of living in Espoo have made you an empty husk of a human being. They don't call their hockey team the "Espoo Blues" for nothing.

Phil Schwarzmann

#17. Words spoken today that are not needed now must be kept till they will be needed

Sunday Adelaja

#18. I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

William Mapother