Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something… — J. D. Greear
Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it. — Tina Weymouth
The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for… — C.J. Sansom
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control… — Judith Lewis Herman
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading. — Alice James
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. — William Kingdon Clifford
When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there… — Rebecca Solnit
We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You. — Unknown Author
One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague. — Sigrid Undset
I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it. — Marsden Hartley
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of… — Jane Yolen
All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as… — John C. Lilly
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my… — Albert Schweitzer
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient… — Jacques Ellul
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful… — Jonathan Kozol
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which… — Aldous Huxley
Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret… — Michel de Montaigne
Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire… — Pema Chodron
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the… — Reinhold Niebuhr
I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't misunderstand my statement.… — Rajneesh
From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape. — Unknown Author
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from… — George Henry Borrow
Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered… — P T Barnum

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