#escapes

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

#always #conversation #escapes #ghost #interview

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

#best #damn #dealing #escapes #life

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

#admit #being #core #escapes #feel

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

#cannot #cardinal #continuously #escapes #improve

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

#always #beyond #escapes #every #experience

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

— Kin Hubbard

#escapes #grouch #little #many #pays

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