Fleeing Quotes

80 quotes by 75 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
What boy my age didnâ€™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
Isnâ€™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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address. — Jeffrey R. Holland
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
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
Virtue consists in fleeing vice. — Horace
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
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

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