Escape Quotes

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It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. — Eric Hoffer
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an… — W. Somerset Maugham
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute… — George Meredith
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. — Solon
Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. — M. Scott Peck
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. — Thomas Jefferson
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape. — Dennis Rodman
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of… — Emile Coue
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men… — Alfred Adler
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells… — Mark Twain
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. — John Bunyan
No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour… — Joseph Hall
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from… — William Gurnall
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs… — Richard J. Foster
Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative… — Thomas Merton
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they start trapping it… — Rajneesh
Meditation doesn't lead you to silence; meditation only creates the situation in which the silence happens. And this should be the criterion - that whenever… — Rajneesh
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last… — Joseph Addison

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