Escape Quotes

1931 quotes by 1394 authors

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture. — Eduardo Galeano
Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes… — Rafael Yglesias
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy… — Robert Kiyosaki
Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal… — Jakob Bohme
One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious… — Mildred S. Dresselhaus
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to… — Pericles
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this… — Frederic Chopin
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these… — Mahavira
Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to… — Keahu Kahuanui
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of… — Gary Zukav
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity. — Jakob Dylan
The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape. — Virginia Postrel
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into… — Drew Gilpin Faust
For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape. — Ben Elliot
I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. — Lauren Bacall
Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In fact, it is… — John Yarmuth
Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a… — Karl G. Maeser
I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled. — David Rakoff
I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to find time to… — Nigel Barker
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S.… — Lael Brainard

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