Subterfuges Quotes

#1. Americans had to work around the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, and more broadly around their announced traditions of equality; and in consequence their law was a law of covert devices and legal subterfuges. American law, as Krieger wrote, was a law of Umwege, devious legal pathways.

James Q. Whitman

#2. The world is always ready to be amazed, but the self, that lynx-eyed monitor, sees all the subterfuges, all the cut corners, and is not deceived.

John Banville

#3. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Isaac Watts

#4. Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Romeo Dallaire

#5. We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.

Jay Weatherill

#6. So Artichoke was a restaurant borne out of impulse and recklessness. Four years on, it's also a testament to how an enterprise started on such a fucked up approach can actually succeed.

Bjorn Shen

#7. At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point.

Nhat Hanh

#8. A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.'

Chamique Holdsclaw

#9. We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

George Herbert