Escapes Quotes

155 quotes by 141 authors

It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
For rarely man escapes his destiny. — Ludovico Ariosto
O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing… — Rabindranath Tagore
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. — Victor Hugo
There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang… — Zhuangzi
If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be detached, it shows… — Rajneesh
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. — Gautama Buddha
A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings… — Gautama Buddha
No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated .… — Ellen Glasgow
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the… — Sharon Olds
My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the… — Woody Guthrie
Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over. — Joshua Slocum
The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experienceâ€”it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes. — Maurice Blanchot
There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he,… — Laurence Sterne
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr
God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at… — Ravi Zacharias
Only mediocrity escapes criticism. — John Steinbeck
There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. — Norton Juster
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery. — A J P Taylor

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