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Mazes Quotes

1.
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
Bernard of Clairvaux

Authors on Mazes Quotes: Lewis H. Lapham Kevin Costner Alexander Pope John Green Terry Brooks Honore de Balzac Robert E. Howard Anne Sexton Dale Watson John Greenleaf Whittier Vladimir Nabokov Charles Mackay Imre Lakatos Tana French Dylan O'Brien Lord Chesterfield Soren Kierkegaard William Golding Barbara Brown Taylor John Milton Tony Robbins Cyril Connolly Rae Foley Catherynne M. Valente Luke Jermay Margaret Atwood Spencer Johnson William Osler Emile Hirsch Mickey Cohen Tim Berners-Lee Bruce Conner E. M. Forster
2.
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
Lewis H. Lapham

3.
It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.
Donna J. Haraway

4.
Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.
Mickey Cohen

5.
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
Cyril Connolly

6.
If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.
Mikhail Naimy

7.
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton

8.
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
William Osler

9.
It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation
Spencer Johnson

10.
Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.
Lord Chesterfield

11.
Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.
John Milton

12.
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
Ramana Maharshi

13.
The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.
Daniel Keyes

14.
Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line.
Rich Hall

15.
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
Margaret Atwood

16.
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve.
It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honore de Balzac

17.
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.
John Green

18.
Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.
Tana French

19.
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
Earl Warren

20.
And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.
Heinrich Heine

21.
I felt really comfortable [on The Maze Runner]. From day one, I loved the script and the story, and I thought it could be something really cool and interesting and original, in this generation of regurgitated projects and sequels and stuff, so I'm proud to be part of it.
Dylan O'Brien

22.
Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
Robert E. Howard

23.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
Vladimir Nabokov

24.
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
Adam Gopnik

25.
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
William Golding

26.
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
Lewis H. Lapham

27.
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.
Milan Kundera

28.
There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.
John Green

29.
I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.
Emile Hirsch

30.
When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.
Bruce Conner

31.
It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?
Soren Kierkegaard

32.
Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.
Teri Garr

33.
We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.
Jeanette Winterson

34.
As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite
Luke Jermay

35.
It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.
Imre Lakatos

36.
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
Alexander Pope

37.
But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.
Jakob Dylan

38.
If certain women walk straight into adultery,
there are many others who cling to numerous hopes,
and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.
Honore de Balzac

39.
I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything.
Cecelia Ahern

40.
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
Terry Brooks

41.
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
E. O. Wilson

42.
Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry
Tamora Pierce

43.
We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.
Sylvester Stallone

44.
I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn't doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.
Barbara Brown Taylor

45.
The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.
Anne Sexton

46.
Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience.
Rick Riordan

47.
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.
James Dashner

48.
I am the Walker and the Maze.
Catherynne M. Valente

49.
...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.
J. M. Coetzee

50.
no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.
Jeffrey Eugenides