Escapes Quotes

155 quotes by 140 authors

Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where it… — Charlotte Mason
I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have… — John Chaney
Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are… — E. Haldeman-Julius
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his… — Benjamin Franklin
The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible.… — Mary Caroline Richards
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. — Rose Wilder Lane
Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life. — Confucius
The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon. — Leonid Shamkovich
The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance. — Henri Poincare
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a… — John Cowper Powys
Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kidâ€™s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if theyâ€™re ever going to be reality. The… — Paul Newman
Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with… — Loren Eiseley
Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips… — Elisabeth Elliot
Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,… — Unknown Author
Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard… — Marcus Aurelius
At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice. How we… — Bill O'Reilly
Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in… — Iris Murdoch
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the… — Fernando Pessoa

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