And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
Quotes about dodging (16 Quotes)
He's dodging any real interviews. This wasn't broadcast live. It was taped and it gave him the opportunity to opt out. There's no inkling if anything was edited out.
It doesn't make the coal burn more efficiently, ... It doesn't make it burn more clean. It does generate a tax credit. It's a way of dodging taxes.
I think we need to address the elementary and middle schools first. Those are safety issues that they are dodging over there.
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
We will make clear again that the only recognizable stable government option is the Christian Democrats, the Christian Social Union and the Free Democrats, that the others are dodging the question of who they actually want to put a majority together with.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
Mike is a speedster. He has an aggressive dodging style and attitude on the lacrosse field and will help our transition game immediately.
Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
He was dodging bullets all the time. Your luck sometimes runs out but we got out of here with what we wanted. Five or six innings, 85-100 pitches. And we had enough guys in the bullpen ... he did his share and the rest of the guys picked him up.
It really is a double-edged sword. If you are a manager or a candidate, you want to be there ... but if you are there, you are dodging bullets instead of shooting bullets. And sometimes somebody draws blood and you are in trouble.
Totally luck, totally luck. Lance Berkman is a great hitter and he knew what I was going to throw. I get it in maybe just a hair, just enough. I don't want to have to do that again tomorrow because he's a great hitter and I consider it dodging bullets when I do that. Seriously.
I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.
But thorough as it may appear on television, is this week's confirmation hearing just another dose of American political theatre Certainly, the potential chief justice hasn't been shy about ducking and dodging, refusing to comment on or pre-judge any issue that could come before the court. For example, in response to Sen. Kennedy's charge that his views on civil rights legislation were narrow and cramped and perhaps even mean spirited, ... I don't want to express any conclusions on hypothetical questions, whether as applied in a particular case, where there would be a challenge ... Those cases come up all the time and I do need to avoid expressing an opinion on those issues.