Evasion Quotes

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

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Humor, Acceptance, Reality

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• Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Feelings, May

  T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.149, Harvard University Press

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

  Mario Monti

  Government, Two, Priorities

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Sake

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Moon, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (2008). “King Lear: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Love, War, Tax Evasion

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Way, Synchronicity

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse (p. 193), 1919.

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

  Molly Ivins

  Lying, Politician

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• Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

  Langston Hughes

  Inspirational Life, Lying, Half

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.141, University of Missouri Press

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• Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

  Ben Ames Williams

  Life, Change, Responsibility

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• What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Forgiving, Vision, Mouths

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• I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Thinking, Bills, Tax Evasion

  "'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.

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• The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

  Denis Healey

  Wall, Business, Differences

  "Holes in the Net". www.economist.com. May 04, 2006.

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• 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?

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Vanity, People, Deception

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.190, Macmillan

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• Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Staying, Solutions, Cowardly

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• I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

  Ian Mcewan

  Kindness, Thinking, Despair

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• Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  And Love, Irony, Pathology

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.53, e-artnow

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• It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

  Jules Verne

  Matter, Obvious, Distasteful

  Jules Verne (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, p.216, My Ebook Publishing House

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• There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

  Nicole Krauss

  People, Silence, Way

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• The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Truth Is, Easier

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Sake

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Liars, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

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• I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Yellow, Tangible, Littles

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1968). “Nabokov's congeries”

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• I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

  Wesley Snipes

  Tax Evasion, Taxes

  "Actor Wesley Snipes reports to prison to begin sentence" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2010.

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• soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.

  Charles Bukowski

  Morning, Holiday, Phones

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