Escapes Quotes

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis

Human, Earth, Race

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Genius, Hand

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

Perfect, Cannot, Until

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 light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer

Great, Character, Mind

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 yet never escapes itself.
T. S. Eliot

Experience, Means, Goes

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Often, Youth

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
Kin Hubbard

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
John Calvin

God, Freedom, Ignorance

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 happy being alone. This has not changed.
Slavoj Zizek

Alone, Happy, Child

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Salman Rushdie

History, Easy, Quiet

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 time, but it is poetry in the memory.
George William Curtis

Time, Poetry, Memory

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 is due to chance.
Henri Poincare

Small, Cannot, Chance

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.
Jeri Ryan

Times, Stressful, Fantasy

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.
Lynn Margulis

Life, Passion, Fire

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 quicksand.
Rose Wilder Lane

Life, Best, Poor

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Ernest Renan

Life, Struggle, Sacrifice

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.
Nicholas Brendon

Few, Admit, Okay

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
Joshua Slocum

Nothing, Reputation, Police

I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.
Alexander Siddig

Love, Give, Games

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