Best Evasion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.”

Mind Reason Humor Funny Together Crazy Humour Depression Normal Jokes Conscious Suicide Mad Mental Health Rational Insane Limitation Insanity Unconscious Satire Sincere Stability Sympathy Sanity Nuts Aphorism Stable Sane Balanced Depressing Rationality Joke Suicidal Sincerely Escape Sympathetic Disturbed Pretense Aphorisms Cracked Bananas Unstable Depressed Sense Psycho Psychotic Pretend Avoid Schizophrenic Evasion Mentally Ill Crackers Limit Aphorist Aphorists Deranged Demented Lucidity Unbalanced Number Depress Unsympathetic Around The Bend Wits Lucid Evade Loco Bonkers Consciously Cuckoo Unconsciously Unhinged Crazed Faculties Loony Batty Certifiable Loopy Mad As A Hatter Non Compos Mentis Not All There Wacko Bushed Mentally Disordered Of Unsound Mind Screwy Stark Raving Mad All There Compos Mentis In One S Right Mind Number Of People Of Sound Mind Off One S Rocker Out Of One S Mind Out Of One S Tree Saneness

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Evasion is the worst strategy to feel free.”

Evasion Evasiveness

Author:Amit Abraham

“Most of most politicians’ answers are long-winded implicit ways of saying: ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t want you to know’.”

Politics Politician Politicians Interview Evasion Demagoguery Demagogue Evade Beat Around The Bush Evasive

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A politician often uses an example or analogy as an attempt to make us forget the question he or she is supposedly answering.”

Politics Democracy Politician Voting Politicians Critical Thinking Elections Interview Evasion Politricks

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it’s exhausting to get them out in the right order.” He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she’d heard one. She raised an eyebrow.”

Truth Funny Sand Thorns Middle Grade Evasion Behind Castle Mg Merrie Haskell Perrotte

Book:The Castle Behind Thorns

Source: The Castle Behind Thorns

“When you use evasion, avoidance and misdirection to protect yourself from hard questions and even harder answers, you're letting your ego get in the way.”

Protect Ego Evasion The Question Quote On Questions

Book:The Question: Find Your True Purpose

Source: The Question: Find Your True Purpose

“When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.”

Evasion

Book:The woman in white

Source: The woman in white

“When a prisoner of style escapes, it's called an evasion.”

Style Evasion

Book:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.”

Death Evasion All The Visions

Author:Rudy Rucker

“Secrets pour out like water, even from a single hole”

Truth Secrets Evasion

Book:Too Like the Lightning

Source: Too Like the Lightning

“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before his own preinduction physical prompted an angry outburstas an orderly took a stab at his arm to draw blood. Tony roared, "What the fuck do you think you are doing?" and was led into the presence of a psychiatrist with whom he engaged in a protracted discussion of the merits of the New York school of abstract expressionist painting, all the while naked. Tony got his 4F classification, presumably on grounds of schizophrenia, and went on to counsel others liable to military service, using the same approach.”

Encyclopedia Evasion Psychedelics Draft

Author:Peter Stafford

“I am the body, and I am the rocks in the pockets, and I am the water. There is no evading myself.”

Life Self Awareness Permanence Evasion Suffocation

Book:Push and Pull

Source: Push and Pull

“No use beating around the bush when the bush is just a bare stump at this point.”

Evasion

Book:The Loophole

Source: The Loophole

“People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.”

People Ifs Want Kind Children Kids Sake Make Sense Evasion

Author:Jeremy Northam

“The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.”

Real Problem Cutting Taxes Greece Real Problems Evasion Tax Evasion

Author:George Papandreou

“Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.”

Difficult Return Skills Blame Opposition Governing Evasion

Author:Thomas Frank

“In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.”

People Together Social Company Talking Social Life Get Together Evasion

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”

Writing Real Jobs Poetry Prose Poetry Is Evasion Real Jobs

Author:Sylvia Plath

“Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.”

Men Way Genuine Vocation Synchronicity Evasion Demian

Author:Hermann Hesse

“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.”

Culture Speak Loss Willing Serious Mark Contemporary Tragic Nerves Symptoms Relativism Evasion Serious Business Tragic Loss

Book:The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

Source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

“The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetual equivocation bears witness to God in the same way as the twisting and turning of a hunted animal indicates the presence of an unseen hunter.”

Way Mean Soul Animal Emotional Bears Witness Contradiction Feminine Distraction Perpetual Sensibility Unseen Hunters Egotism Hunted Evasion Outburst Coquetry Emotional Outbursts

Book:The Impostor

Source: The Impostor

“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.”

Real Stories Law Order Natural Space Behinds Emotional Concerned Cosmic Violation Defiance Evasion Natural Order

Book:Selected Letters 1934-1937

Source: Selected Letters 1934-1937

“Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.”

Two Opposites Tolerance Condemnation Evasion Two Opposites

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.”

Trying Play Problem Literature Stage Evasion

Author:Edward Bond

“An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.”

“Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.”

Intimate Unworthy Evasion

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.”

Art Apology Procrastination Sooner Or Later Invisibility Evasion Procrastinator

Book:Works

Source: Works

“With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.”

Lying Politician Evasion

Author:Molly Ivins

“US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.”

Use Force Security Crime Including Protection Data Agency Allies Troops Requirements Sanctions Nsa Cybersecurity Our Troops Evasion Intelligence Agencies Counterintelligence

Author:Barack Obama

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

Looks Hard Helping Common Plans Difficulty Shelter Really Great Hearted Evasion Instantaneous

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.”

Knows Littles Desire Individual Sound Progress Honest Ready Kings Endless Experts Priests Reliance Allegiance Evasion

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“But then a daring evasion by a leading conveyancer, known as the Lease and Release, received judicial sanction; and commenced a successful career of more than 200 years. The Lease and Release, attributed to Serjeant Moore, was based on the fact that the Statute of Inrolments did not apply to terms of years.”

Years Facts Term Known Careers Successful Release Daring Sanctions Judicial Statutes Evasion Lease Successful Career

Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.”

Two Government Taxes Corruption Priorities Evasion Tackling Tax Evasion

Author:Mario Monti

“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”

“At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety.”

“Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.”

People Knows Use Know How Advice Smart Difficulty Smart People Evasion

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life and deal with your own sins without compromise, excuses, or evasion (Matthew 7:1-5).”

Firsts Looks Helping Sin Deals Excuse Helping Others Compromise Matthew Evasion

Author:John C. Broger

“All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.”

Love War Fairs Evasion Tax Evasion

Author:Marc Andreessen

“Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.”

World Country Three Blood Crime Source Taxes Thirds Organized Illegal Rulers Dictator Third World Switzerland Evasion Organized Crime Developed Country Tax Evasion

Author:Jean Ziegler

“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections”

Running America Form Leader Economy Periods Taxes Bases Irony Collections Soviet Smooth Philanthropy Splendid Breakdown Frantic Evasion Tax Evasion

Book:Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties

Source: Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties

“Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.”

People Has Beens Action Responsibility Abuse Refuse Administration Officials Accountability Openness Replaced Secrecy Evasion

Author:Edward Kennedy

“It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.”

Men Problem Essentials Evasion

Book:Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material: History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, the Emotional Plague of Mankind. Documentary Volume

Source: Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material: History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, the Emotional Plague of Mankind. Documentary Volume

“There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of evasion, and I have problems with this. I believe poetry has always been political, long before poets had to deal with the page and white space . . . it's natural.”

People Thinking Believe Long Whole Moments Problem Political I Believe Natural Space White Deals Poet Pages Sameness Evasion American Poetry This I Believe White Space

Author:Yusef Komunyakaa

“I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found it?" I think we are a generation that perhaps could not answer in the affirmative, and it is the evasion of the larger responsibility of being only one generation in what one hopes will be an infinite series of fruitful generations. There is a selfishness in refusing to understand that we are passing through; others will come, and they deserve certain courtesies and certain considerations from us.”

“The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.”

Reality Economic Modern Theory Tales Evasion Economic Theory Modern History

Author:Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

“Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are part of a community, then leadership is everyone's vocation, and it can be an evasion to insist that it is not. When we live in the close-knit ecosystem called community, everyone follows and everyone leads.”

Ifs Thinking Self Seems Community Leader Concepts Vocation Ecosystems Evasion

Author:Parker J. Palmer

“Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.”

World Our Lives Constant Visible Sensible Penetrate Evasion

Author:T. S. Eliot

“An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.”

Knows Want Mind Soul White Rooms Taste Music Is Mere Exquisite Englishmen Evasion English Music

Book:A future for English music, and other lectures

Source: A future for English music, and other lectures

“We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.”

Pay Share Havens Taxes Target Shore And Off Evasion Tax Evasion

Author:George Osborne

Evasion Quotes

Related topics

Evasion Quotes