Fleeing Quotes
80 quotes by 75 authors
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To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the…
— Plato
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They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction,…
— Hugh Shelton
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The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come…
— Unknown Author
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A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great…
— Peter Lynch
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between…
— Alvin Toffler
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other…
— Rick Yancey
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Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew…
— Jonah
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News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the…
— Randall Munroe
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Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
— Giorgio de Chirico
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Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having…
— Jeff Cooper
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O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or…
— Erich Fromm
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The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
— R C Sproul
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When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the word integration means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are,…
— James A. Baldwin
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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
— Horace
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Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk…
— Isabel Wilkerson
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One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than…
— David Riesman
Who Wrote These Fleeing Quotes
75 authors contributed a total of 80 Fleeing Quotes, led by these top contributors: