Escapes Quotes

155 Escapes quotes by 140 unique authors

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 aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’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
The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone. — Steven Sinofsky
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect… — Henri Poincare
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that… — Rose Wilder Lane
They are wrong who say that love is blind. On the contrary, nothing - not even the smallest detail - escapes the eyes; one sees… — Gregory J P Godek
Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all… — J.R.R. Tolkien
An evil man is trapped by his sinful talk, but a righteous man escapes trouble — Bible
What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What… — Chanakya
They are wrong who say that love is blind. On the contrary, nothing - not even the smallest detail - escapes the eyes; one sees… — Pranjul Tomar
Shouldn't be surprised but continues to be amazed at how common courtesy escapes some people. — Sarah Moores
As thesteps on stars and escapes the day we'll only walk away and walk away from the fame and when all else fails we'll build… — Unknown Author

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