Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on. — Steven Callahan
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus. — Hesiod
Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them.… — Hesiod
Ever since you're little you hear this: 'The pilgrims left England to escape religious persecution and sneak religious freedom into the new world.' But even… — Greg Proops
I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard… — Zhang Ziyi
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them. — Olive Schreiner
People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back. — Eugene J. Martin
We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation. — Herbert Hoover
The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity. — George Washington
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external… — Stanislaw Ulam
It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record… — Eddie Vedder
Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? — Geraldine Chaplin
There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the… — Mikhail Bakunin
Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate… — Frederica Mathewes-Green
Death was like love, a romantic escape. — Brigitte Bardot
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. — Frank Herbert
Music should be your escape. — Missy Elliot
She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that… — Connie Brockway
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. — Brooks Atkinson
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it… — Ludwig van Beethoven
I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement. — Jody Watley
I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it… — Jack White
One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to… — Rex Stout
From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape — Sophocles
Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better. — Marcus Borg

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