Deflect Quotes

You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end? - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.

You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back. - Peter Hain

Whether it's a wonder goal, whether it's a deflected goal, whether it's an own goal -- we just need to get a break. - Steve Nicol

Whenever he started to get attention, he deflected it to the team. - Billy Donovan

When you're intense you're intense. It's hard to be intense in one area and not have it carry over and affect other areas. I think the more intense she's become about deflections and steals, the greater her intensity level has risen on everything, offense, running the floor, rebounding. - Andy Landers

When we reflect how difficult it is to move or deflect the great machine of society, how impossible to advance the notions of a whole people suddenly to ideal right, we see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the na. - Thomas Jefferson

What we have here is another attempt to deflect attention from the opportunity we have to improve our highway infrastructure and our economy. - Jane Jankowski

What he did there was very smart. He deflected attention from the players, and he let them play, and I think that was coaching as much as anything. - Andy Moog

We've had passengers stranded on taxiways for longer than that. I think it's really going to be a session for the secretary to browbeat people and really deflect blame from the Department of Transportation and the FAA. - David Stempler

We've been getting some excellent hockey by all four lines, and I think that's why we're having success right now because we're not just relying on our big dogs to score the goals. I just tried to get the puck on net and Murray, getting his nose dirty once again, made a great deflection. - Craig Rivet