#flee

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? ↗

— Franz Kafka

#flees #how #refuge #take #unless

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

I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service. ↗

— Billy Koch

#could #fleet #foot #glove #going

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it. ↗

— Voltaire

#chain #either #ferocious #flee #must

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#alert #american #attack #been #blessing

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#fleeting #frozen #i #moment

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#emperors #fancy #finds #fleet #hear

...it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul... ↗

— John Geddes

#beauty-fleeting #soul #superficiality #wisdom #beauty

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#because #day #fleeting #gone #happiness

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh. ↗

— Robert Orben

#choices #crisis #fight #flee #had