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Quotes About Lurks

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
And there are no years without plague. Some years it doesn't reach the rich, but it always lurks among the poor.
~ Rachel Hartman
For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.
~ William Shakespeare
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.
~ Laozi
dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
~ Alexander Hamilton
We want to see the options we refuse to pursue; we like to know what lurks on the other side of the door we never open.
~ Robert Atwan
Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.
~ George Foreman
a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
~ Ron Chernow
We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.
~ Harry Belafonte
prejudice is the energy of ethnocentrism. It lurks there, napping, until ethnocentrism summons it to do its dirty work, justifying the occasional bad things we good people want to do.
~ Carol Tavris
The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty.
~ James M. Cain
Still, an agility lurks underneath, a wiry surprise, as if he might burst away from the limp at any moment and leave it abandoned behind him.
~ Colum McCann
In the gutter atop the empty, boarded-up building on my side of the road, Mourning Doves sense my dread and shudder in a cozy nest tucked in the gutter. Their kin have flown to warmer, brighter skies, but they remain my steadfast companions. I'm grateful, though I long to fly, too. But as long as The Bad Man lurks, another girl may need me. As long as The Bad Man lurks, I will stay.
~ Cynthia Leitich Smith
The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think they would also see a deeper violence - the one that's not as showy or as immediately arresting, but kind of the more unsolvable violence that lurks underneath.
~ Jenny Zhang
Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.
~ Mary E. DeMuth
Beware! In every man there lurks the falcon; a streak of ruthlessness and thirst for power.
~ Penny Jordan