Escapes Quotes
155 quotes by 141 authors
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet.…
— Jimmy Cannon
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom…
— John Calvin
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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
— Ernest Renan
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment…
— Emile Durkheim
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What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
— Heraclitus
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It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.
— Robert Breault
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
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I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.
— Jeri Ryan
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
— Samuel Johnson
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is…
— Ayn Rand
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government…
— H. L. Mencken
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As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
— Annie Dillard
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him,…
— Khalil Gibran
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
— Walter Scott
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No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is…
— Nicholas Brendon
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Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is…
— Lydia Millet
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Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight:…
— Teju Cole
Who Wrote These Escapes Quotes
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