#evade

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#civil #civil service #dare #enactment #evade

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. ↗

— William Feather

#evade #his #man #manifest #must

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#artists #compromise #daily #daily life #defeated

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#could #evade #failure #general #ignore

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#crushed #dangerous #evade #hope #law

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #cop-out #evade #evaluate #even

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer. ↗

— David Guterson

#answer #bury #evade #gives #how

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#dangerous #defensive #desire #enemy #evade

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#chained #england #english #evade #fate