31 Quotes About Deflection

Deflection is a common tactic used in abusive relationships by the primary aggressor. These quotes about deflection capture the behavior and characteristics of these types of individuals.

“All I do is have fun. When I’m not working, it’s about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone’s mad at me, I’ll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I’m not laughing, I’m not happy.”

“And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth?”

“Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that’s what he wants. Mostly it’s women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.”

“Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.”

“Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.”

“God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father’s love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father’s anger.”

“Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own….I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.”

“I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have a shot of less than 20 degrees deflection and until I’m within 300 yards. Good discipline on this score can make up for a great deal.”

“I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.”

“I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in a precise manner.”

“I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.”

“I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer.”

“I would not regret putting a hole in your arrogant chest, only it would be deflected when it hit that piece of rock you call a heart.”

“If you lie to your husband – even about something so banal as how much you drink – each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it’s deflected away.”

“I’m straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away with that deflection.”

“It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.”

“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures…”

“Listeners are kind of ambushed… if a poem just happens to be said when they’re listening to the radio. The listener doesn’t have time to deploy what I call their ‘poetry deflector shields’ that were installed in high school – there’s little time to resist the poem.”

“Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do… Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.”

“Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.”

“Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely- make that miraculously- fortunate in your personal ancestry.”

“On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.”

“Once again I realized: the aura of Indigo does not save and does not protect. It can become a magic carpet, turn into seven-league boots or a heavy cross – but it’s not a guardian angel to deflect troubles with its thin hand.”

“Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature.”

“Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.”

“The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.”

“The worst tragedy of sin isn’t that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.”

“This cruel age has deflected me,like a river from this course.Strayed from its familiar shores,my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel.How many spectacles I’ve missed: the curtain rising without me,and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.”

“We not only need to train people, we also need to develop deflection technologies.”

“You know, a meme is now circulating that’s called the Ostrich Brigade. And it’s used to describe all those people who are burying their heads in the sand.”

“In terms of days and moments lived, you’ll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important.”

Deflection is commonly used as a part of a coping mechanism and is a large barrier to self awareness.