Top 46 Quotes About Evading
#1. See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.
Maxwell Maltz
#2. People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
Thomas Sowell
#3. How liberating it must be to stop evading, questioning, or complaining about your trials and start embracing them as opportunities to draw closer to God, to realize that even if Jesus is all you have, He is enough
Colleen Carroll Campbell
#4. In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.
C.S. Lewis
#5. Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
Jorge Luis Borges
#6. A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#7. For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.
Marcel Proust
#8. During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat's yawn, "I think I will go to my grave now," and had left the room.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#9. She liked his face - its lines were tight and firm, it did not have that look of loose muscles evading the responsibility of a shape, which she had learned to expect in people's faces.
Ayn Rand
#10. In evading his question, she'd given him his answer. His father had heard voices in his madness and now Raphael heard them, too.
Nalini Singh
#11. There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.
Joan Didion
#12. Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
Candace Bushnell
#13. And we weren't a species interested in facts, as such. We were more into evading or spinning them.
Adrian Barnes
#15. Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.
Charles Yu
#16. We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
Ayn Rand
#17. Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.
Ayn Rand
#18. Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.
Stephen Jay Gould
#19. Would my first trip to Europe be spent evading drunken maniacs and watching birds evacuate their bowels on rocky beaches?
Ransom Riggs
#20. Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#21. In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . That would lead to anarchy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#22. No, no, never send interim reports," said Miles. "Only final ones. Interim reports tend to elicit orders. Which you must then either obey, or spend valuable time and energy evading, which you could be using to solve the problem.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#23. The action of naming an issue instead of evading it, was so unlike the usual behavior of all the men he knew, it was such a sudden, startling relief ...
Ayn Rand
#24. Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, he moved, Kuang moving with him, evading his attackers with an ancient dance, Hideo's dance, grace of the mind-body interface granted him, in that second, by the clarity and singleness of his wish to die.
William Gibson
#25. I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me.
Mike Tyson
#26. the room, evading his mother's reaching hand. "You're back!
Cassandra Clare
#27. In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form,
so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.
David Horowitz
#28. There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. Consequently, in the United States the law favors those classes which are most interested in evading it elsewhere.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#30. We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
Bill Moyers
#31. There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.
David Romtvedt
#32. Knowing where the trap is
that's the first step in evading it.
Frank Herbert
#33. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
#34. When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world, well I think that's an evasion. It's actually trying to confront something that most people would rather not confront.
Tom Shippey
#35. I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.
Rigoberta Menchu
#36. You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.
Criss Jami
#37. Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#38. Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.
Hetty King
#39. An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
John Dewey
#40. P. 62 ... meditation ... exposes a contradiction between the sort of person we wish to be and the kind of person we are. Restlessness and lethargy are ways of evading the discomfort of this contradiction.
Stephen Batchelor
#41. Afraid of a wooden sword?"
"Just demonstrating my skills in evading an attack. Impressed?
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#42. The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
Richard Corliss
#43. A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.
Alain De Botton
#44. You can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today
Abraham Lincoln
#45. Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [ ... ] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
#46. You cannot hide from the truth, Mina. Anytime you try to argue with the truth you lose. Anytime you try to evade it or run away from it, it will find you down the road.
Karen Essex
