Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life…

When we do our legislation, we're not trying to figure out, 'How can I use this to run against you?' We say, 'How can…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world...

— Rumi

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

— Michel Foucault

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are…

— Anonymous

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't…

— Daniel Craig

I've been trying to avoid my problems, and I don't know what to do. I get high, but when I come down, my problems…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

“If you love stress, practice avoidance.”

— Sharon Rowe

You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

— Frederick Lenz

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

— Deepak Chopra

I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by…

— David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be…

— Charles M. Blow

“People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.”

— Silvia Hartmann

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

— James Richardson

“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.”

— Ruth Padel

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

— John Whiting