Cannot Escape Quotes

104 quotes by 92 authors

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the… — Abraham Lincoln
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape. — Mason Cooley
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it. — Sophocles
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape. — Blaise Pascal
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world. — W. E. B. Du Bois
As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births. — Gautama Buddha
As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that… — Todd Solondz
One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop… — Andrew Greeley
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course. — Hilaire Belloc
It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours,… — Mark Hertsgaard
Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy. — Robert A. Heinlein
The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In… — Eric Hoffer
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm. — Agnes Repplier
If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch,… — Georges Braque
Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. — Camille Paglia
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. — Benedict Cumberbatch
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. — Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only… — Ravi Zacharias
ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat… — Jean-Luc Godard

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