Quotes of: Evasive Keyword

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Gilbert Parker

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 faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

To Kill a Mockingbird

A daydream is an evasion.

Thomas Merton

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 after...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality.

Caitlin Thomas

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

Mario Monti

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

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Wesley Snipes

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Margaret Thatcher

Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: No evasions, Mister Secretary, no evasions if you please. Secretary of Defense: Evasions? What the hell are you talking about? Secretary of Defense: [whispering to Marco] What the hell is this nonsense? Marco: [covering the m...

The Manchurian Candidate

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

George C. Marshall

People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.

Priyanka Chopra

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

Denis Healey

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.

Heather Brooke

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell

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

Edward Bond

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

Beyond Good and Evil

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

Thomas Frank

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

George Papandreou

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

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

Chapman Cohen