Deflect Quotations

I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.

For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.

Now we're really seeing even the byproduct of the style that he's comfortable with and the confidence that comes from winning. We're achieving the success as a team that comes from 23 guys paying attention to team defense. We're not taking anything from what Brian has remarkably been able to accomplish, because it's extraordinarily hard to get a shutout, period, let alone to think of four in a row. But it really is an entire roster sacrificing anything and everything needed to get in front of pucks or deflect pucks or controlling positions defensively to be aware of taking away scoring opportunities.

Newspapermen, as journalists used to be called, have long been charged with the sin of cynicism. a characterization that many of us encourage to deflect attention from our far more widespread flaw, incorrigible sentimentalism.

If we decide to deflect an asteroid we will need to know just where the center is, and we need to know something about its mechanical (compositional) strength.

has adopted this siege mentality in which the best way to deflect the question is to attack the questioner. I'm not quite sure who he's playing to -- maybe the segment of the Republican Party that believes we're a bunch of liberals who have our own agenda.

Basically, he pushed the kid out of the car in an attempt to deflect attention from himself to the child, and that certainly worked, bought him some time, and he's been able to get away thus far. But now, he's causing the charges to mount, because he pushed the kid out, and that's a dangerous thing.

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

He has tremendous ball hawking instincts, and his quickness and speed helped him deflect and break up many other passes. Swartz also possesses good ball instincts and has a knack for making plays.

He fought it with humor. He always used humor to deflect it off him.

Joe did a great job getting position in front of the net. I threw it in front and he's got pretty good hands, so he was able to deflect it in.

I was just trying to get a rebound and get my hands on the ball. Anytime you deflect a ball, good things can happen.

I think when you're the highest-paid player, pressure is a part of the game. It's part of the business and I don't think that's anything new to him. I think it was maybe easier in Pittsburgh to deflect some of it because of previous accomplishments like the scoring titles and the Stanley Cup rings. Here he hasn't done that yet.

Remember this is a proof-of-concept engineering mission, not a science mission. We really do have to learn how to operate in the vicinity of an asteroid if we are ever going to use them for space resources or if we are going to have a reliable capability to deflect a dangerous one.

I think everybody is covering their posteriors with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.

Katherine Harris has no credibility and neither do her charges. Her phony attacks are a cynical attempt to deflect attention away from her involvement in the largest congressional bribery scandal in history.

Bill Gates adamantly denies ever making such a comment, ... This is just another attempt to deflect interest from the real issues in this case.

Bill Gates adamantly denies ever making such a comment. This is just another attempt to deflect interest from the real issues in this case.

Berlusconi is desperate and he's latching on to what he can to deflect attention away from the economy; it's the most prominent chink in the armor. That's why he's jumped on the wiretapping scandals.

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.

That's what we try to do. We need to deflect the ball and steal the ball into easy hoops and in the second half we did a better job than that.

This individual has received a number of accolades over the years, yet he doesn't seek attention and is quick to deflect praise to other around him.

Everybody is very angry just now, but emotions should not deflect the framework,

Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.

Any time you go through what I've been going through, you just have to deflect it. I've been challenged to do better. I've been working hard and I have the blisters to prove it.

This is just a desperate attempt to deflect attention from a career of blunders and failures.

David's a solid player. I'd like to get him to shoot more. Sometimes you don't even know he's out there and then he'll deflect a pass or get a steal ... He's just a solid player and he has been throughout his basketball career.

The FDA commissioner's job is to absorb and deflect criticism of the agency ... Crawford failed that test.

It worked a little. We were able to slow down the tempo a little and deflect a few balls, but it wasn't as good as I would have liked. We need to be more aggressive. But most good teams are able to break presses. We really need to be able to dig in defensively as a team.

They were shots from quite a distance away which our goalie was tracking. One of our guys would deflect the ball and make it change direction a little and our goalie was not able to react in time. This was two good teams battling each other. I was very encouraged with how we looked.

It's clear they are trying to button up some of their previous problems with PR and to deflect criticism about all of their purchasing of former U.S. officials. It's a move that is clearly designed to make them look like a regular company.

A guy went down and I just shot it on net, hoping it would go in or hit off someone and deflect in. Fortunately, it went right in there for me.

There were certain instances where I used humor to deflect questions, and I guess some reporters took offense,

I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.