Escapes Quotes

155 quotes by 141 authors

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
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
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
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. — Ernest Renan
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
What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity. — Heraclitus
It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel. — Robert Breault
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain. — Theodore Parker
I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes. — Jeri Ryan
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
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
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
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
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
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land. — Annie Dillard
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. — Walter Scott
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
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
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

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