Quotes about Evasion

and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

A daydream is an evasion.

The religious answer is not really religious if it's not fully real. Evasion is the answer of superstition.

Either we may seek to conform our desires to the truth, which leads to conviction, or we may seek to conform the truth to our desires, which leads to evasion.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

My life, though, has been something (as only now at last I am able to see), but it is something that it has made of itself, not something that I have made of it. All I seem to have done is avoid wherever I could (so far) the man across the desk—for (so far) the world has afforded a little room for a few of us, lucky or blessed, to go around him. And now I wonder if I can die quickly enough and secretly enough to make the final evasion.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.

For knitting composed the mind; knitting served the necessary means of evasion; knitting constituted not only an escape, but a tangible protection, from husbands.