Escapes Quotes

155 quotes by 140 authors

It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days.… — Mary Zimmerman
I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is… — Jenny Downham
As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize… — Charles Bukowski
I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed… — John Green
They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and… — Norton Juster
Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life… — Michael Crichton
No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life… — Patrick Ness
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence… — Delphine de Vigan
Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The… — Robert Jordan
In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor… — Thomas Harris
Novels arenâ€™t just happy escapes; they are slivers of peopleâ€™s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right… — Brandon Sanderson
For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment. — Maggie Stiefvater
No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope. — Simone Weil
There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian… — Thomas Brooks
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and… — John Shelby Spong
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you… — Emmeline Pankhurst
Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of… — Michael Leunig

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