#fled

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. ↗

— Robert Browning

#baffled #better #break #clouds #doubted

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. ↗

— James Buchan

#belief #cannot #city #complex #consequences

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#fled #freedom #germany #grandfather #had

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#approach #ashore #completely #dispatched #doubt

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#alleged #children #fled #france #franco

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic. ↗

— Judd Gregg

#action #also #awakening #being #democracy

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. ↗

— Brian Eno

#away #back #country #dozing #england

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#had #inarticulate #lifetime #memories #once

The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#arab #arab countries #behind #compensation #countries

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing. ↗

— Aga Khan III

#day #every #every day #filled #fled