A Quote by Mason Cooley

By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

Mason Cooley

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Commitments Multiplying

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

Robert Stone

Commitments present themselves in delineations of black and white. You either honor your commitments or you don't. Success is the result of making and keeping commitments to your self and others, while all failed or unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the direct result of broken commitments. It's that simple, that profound, and that important.

Gary Ryan

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

T. S. Eliot

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.

David Jeremiah

It is of considerable importance that politicians stick to their commitments or do not make such commitments in the first place.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.

Stephen Covey

What does it cost to lose those weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others? Can you evade the dying of the brightness? Or do you evade only its warning? Where are you left if you miss the message the blue nights bring?

Joan Didion

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

Jeffrey Sachs

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

Ayn Rand

With my resignation, I... left unfulfilled commitments I made to many comrades in the fight, commitments I hold sacred. My service did not end as I would have wished.

Stanley A. McChrystal

It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.

T.R. Reid

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Jeffrey Sachs

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Stephen Covey

The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.