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Tag Name "Flees" (24)

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When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.
Billy Graham
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Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.
Charles Baudelaire
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One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.
David O. McKay
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz Kafka
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A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
Helen Rowland
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No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.
James Joyce
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Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Jose Marti
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The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.
Martin Luther
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I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
Ovid
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He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.
Publilius Syrus
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Youth now flees on feathered foot.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
William Faulkner
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Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!
Aron Nimzowitsch
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In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.
Camille Paglia
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No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.
Clovis Chappell
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They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it that encourages, this compels and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.
Francis Quarles
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Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James A. Baldwin
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The virtuous woman flees from danger she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.
Joshua Harris
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The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.
Martin Luther
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Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.
Ovid
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What we seek we shall find what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?
Rumi