Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself,… — Jean Cocteau
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And… — George F. Kennan
Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own… — Ed Koch
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them… — Marguerite Duras
This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road… — Sun Tzu
The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is… — Paul Kurtz
If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into… — Robert D. Brinsmead
To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape. — Sun Tzu
The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to… — Jerry Bridges
Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies… — John Oliver Killens
The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one… — Gamal Abdel Nasser
When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. — Andy Andrews
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You… — Cesare Pavese
God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and… — Sylvia Plath
Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be… — Adolf Hitler
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television… — Shirley Chisholm
I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown! — Richard Neutra
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests… — A. C. Benson
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him… — Arthur Koestler
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of… — Pema Chodron
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. — Horace
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt… — Lewis Gannett

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