Escape Quotes

1931 quotes by 1452 authors

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you… — Helena Bonham Carter
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision,… — James Lane Allen
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. — John Ciardi
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. — Emile M. Cioran
We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves. — Kurt Cobain
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself,… — Jean Cocteau
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And… — George F. Kennan
Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own… — Ed Koch
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them… — Marguerite Duras
This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road… — Sun Tzu
The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is… — Paul Kurtz
If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into… — Robert D. Brinsmead
To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape. — Sun Tzu
The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to… — Jerry Bridges
Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies… — John Oliver Killens
The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one… — Gamal Abdel Nasser
When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. — Andy Andrews
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You… — Cesare Pavese
God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and… — Sylvia Plath
Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants,… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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