Escape Quotes
1931 quotes by 1394 authors
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Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right…
— Tom Shadyac
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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century,…
— Criss Angel
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It is my position that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at…
— Michael Mullen
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
— Gary Hamel
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Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually…
— Mary Karr
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence…
— Edgar Ramirez
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Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way…
— Andre Gide
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Every apostle or disciple, as much as they're running to follow their savior- they're running just as hard to escape something else.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape,…
— Latin Proverb
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She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't…
— Unknown Author
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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Courage is ten, nine is the ability to escape
— William Shakespeare
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People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death penalty ignore three…
— Thomas Sowell
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I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of…
— Anatole France
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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.
— Martin Buber
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Not every book should be a compass. Some should be a pair of wax wings to soar and escape, if only for a brief time.
— DH Lawrence
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Your Absence is everywhere... I cannot escape your memory...
— Unknown Author
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Only this way the human life will escape its own burden, its own image, its own Destiny, the vanity, the deceit and the absurd, the…
— Sorin Cerin
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And I told myself I was in a trap from which I wanted to escape! To escape where, do you, Man know where you want…
— Sorin Cerin
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