#escapes

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

— Joshua Slocum

#known #new #new south wales #nothing #over

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

#am #being #being alone #books #changed

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

#even #freedom #god #ignorance #inadvertently

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

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

— Kin Hubbard

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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

#escapes #glad #hopes #life #often

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

— C. S. Lewis

#elsewhere #escapes #human #human race #iniquity

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

#cause #chance #considerable #determines #due

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

— Ernest Renan

#escapes #ever #except #expense #idea

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

— Salman Rushdie

#easy #escapes #fuss #history #quiet