Escapes Quotes

155 Escapes quotes by 140 unique authors

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, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’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
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

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