Escape Quotes

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You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you. — Tom Robbins
No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it. — Andrea Dworkin
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. — Ellis Peters
If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a… — Alyssa Milano
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally… — Benjamin Franklin
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste… — Ben Okri
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. — Edward Abbey
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.… — Edward Abbey
We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go… — Ray Bradbury
He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the… — Otto von Bismarck
Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire… — Erich Fromm
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it. — David Shields
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. 'Hit the bottom and escape' is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me — Thom Yorke
A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything… — Elizabeth Jane Howard
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap,… — Frank Herbert
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey… — Samuel Johnson

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