Escapes Quotes

155 quotes by 140 authors

We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her… — Octavio Paz
Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia. — Ambrose Bierce
Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those… — Milan Kundera
If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come… — Yasmin Mogahed
The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks… — Plato
I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate… — Rawi Hage
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing… — Max Lucado
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell… — Henry David Thoreau
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask… — D. H. Lawrence
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go… — Ernest Gaines
When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all. — Alexander Siddig
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens
Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you. — Issey Miyake
Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes. — Yisroel Salanter
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes. — William Cowper
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean… — Blaise Pascal

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