Fleeing Quotes

• 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, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Brother, Mean, Reality

  "The Fire Next Time". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1963.

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• I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Discovery, Finding Yourself, Know Yourself

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• 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

  Autumn, Wind, Unseen

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 1

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• Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

  John Gay

  Love, Confused, Thee

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• Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

  Anthony of Padua

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Compassion, Broken

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

  Hesiod

  Marriage, Wedding, Sisterhood

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• Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

  Bill Geist

  Reading, Men, He Man

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• 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

  Men, Benefits, Sin

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2017

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• Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Moon, Space Flight

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• 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

  Art, Butterfly, Men

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• A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

  Pietro Aretino

  Art, Adversity, Mind

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Children, People, Dialogue

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• They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

  George C. Wallace

  Virginia, Bridges, White

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• When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Self, Defense, Execution

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• When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

  Struggle, Men, Joy

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• 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, we don't know.

  Hugh Shelton

  Firefighter, Knows, Felt

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• 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 no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters - and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Opportunity, Destiny, Men

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• I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Love, God, Faith

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• Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

  Horace

  Vices, Virtue

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• Life is one big road with lots of signs,
  So when you riding through the ruts,
  Don't you complicate your mind
  Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
  Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Song: 'Wake Up and Live!'". 1979.

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• Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Nature, Sheep

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• Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Struggle, Inspiration

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• Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Falling In Love, Mind, Done

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• Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland

  Ian Anderson

  Song, Sunshine, Dark

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