Evasion Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Believe, Thinking, White

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• A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Running, Wings, Bats

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim (1992). “The Philosophy of Natural Magic”, p.169, Health Research Books

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• It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, Essentials, Problem

  Wilhelm Reich (1953). “Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material: History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, the Emotional Plague of Mankind. Documentary Volume”

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• He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end?

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Running, Ice, Hands Up

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• 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.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

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

  Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

  Reality, Modern, Economic

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• 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.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Thinking, Self, Ecosystems

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

  T. S. Eliot

  World, Sensible, Constant

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• 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.

  Edward Elgar

  White, Soul, Mind

  Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”

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• 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.

  Jeremy Northam

  Children, Kids, People

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• History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

  Lord Acton

  History, Opinion, Disputes

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.16, VM eBooks

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• Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.

  Dean Koontz

  Choices, Way, Path

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.534, Bantam

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• Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

  George C. Marshall

  Down The Road

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• No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Income, Poverty, Problem

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• Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

  Ernst Mach

  Science, Sound, Saving

  Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

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• Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.

  Chapman Cohen

  Atheist, Cutting, Issues

  "Theism Or Atheism: The Great Alternative" by Chapman Cohen, (Ch. XIII), 1921.

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• They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

  William Faulkner

  Men, White Man, Justice

  The Bear pt. 4 (1932)

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• Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Jesus, Reality

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• It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed.

  Gore Vidal

  Teacher, Simple, Sea

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• There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Fear, Inattention, Facts

  "Krishnamurti's notebook".

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• Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in the present moment, the mind flings us into tawdry and tiresome elaborations of past and future. This craving to be otherwise, to be elsewhere, permeates the body, feeling, perceptions, will - consciousness itself. It is like the background radiation from the big bang of birth, the aftershock of having erupted into existence.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Past, Feelings, Mind

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• If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to deconstruct? Someone who is making a point out of anger, ideology, inflexibility, or resentment would presumably construct a flimsy argument. So why can't the argument itself be dismembered rather than the speaker's personal style or hidden motives? Why the evasions?

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Self, Style

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• I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

  Alasdair Gray

  Lying, Heart, Speech

  "Lanark: A Life in Four Books". Book by Alasdair Gray, 1981.

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• I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

  Frank Lentricchia

  Real, Eye, People

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• Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.

  Hyman Rickover

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Unique

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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