Evasive Behavior Quotes

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

If I think I'm going to get into trouble I always say that I'm sick.

Be honest with yourself about what you're blowing off. A little cancellation here or a bow-out there can add up... but only if you refuse to acknowledge your actions.

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it by accident. It seemed like a waste of whatever detailed lie I was going to have to come up with.