Escapes Quotes

155 Escapes quotes by 140 unique authors

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
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence. — Wyndham Lewis
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge… — Paula Rego
We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us. — Jean de la Bruyere
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor. — Euripides
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. — Stephen Covey
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the… — George William Curtis
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. — Kin Hubbard
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. — C.S. Lewis
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through… — Mike Pence
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. — Salman Rushdie
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that… — Albert Schweitzer
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. — Henry David Thoreau
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering. — Gilles Deleuze
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,… — George Eliot
Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box… — John Steinbeck
He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture.… — William Goldman
...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back… — Thomas Wolfe
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show… — Simone de Beauvoir
Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be… — Jacques Derrida

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