Fleeing Quotes

80 quotes by 76 authors

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them… — Pietro Aretino
I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance… — Chris Christie
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history. Across the Pacific,… — George H. W. Bush
By balancing the needs of families and employers, and by extending a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, our immigration policy serves its historic purpose.… — Spencer Abraham
There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for… — Pope Gregory I
Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities,… — Khalil Gibran
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. — Jeff Cooper
I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me… — Anna Wintour
It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an… — Eva Ibbotson
Fight against your ego with the four swords of training: eat little, sleep little, speak little, and be patient when people harm you... Then the… — Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi
...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism.… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies- or to help the world's most desperate - the AIDS orphan in Uganda,… — Condoleezza Rice
Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us… — Luther Standing Bear
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. — Hesiod
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the… — Marvin Dunnette
Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not. — Paulo Coelho
We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and… — Kay Bailey Hutchison
Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind,… — Cecelia Ahern
The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had… — Kumi Naidoo
Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind. — Dave Beard

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