Mickey Cohen
Gangster
"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."
Mazes quotes
Mazes
65 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze."
Rich Hall
Comedian, Writer
"Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue."
John Green
Author, YouTuber
"At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze."
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"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."
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"I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling"
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"There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze."
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"...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."
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"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?"
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"But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed."
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"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."
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"Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others..."
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"It's a lot easier to complete a maze if you start at the end."
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"The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home."
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"I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may."
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"I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way."
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"Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us."
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"Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze."
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"A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know."
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"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."
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