Escapes Quotes

155 Escapes quotes by 140 unique authors

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 experience—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
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

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