Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. .… — John Vianney
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much… — Louise Brown
Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part. — Leonid Shamkovich
Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape.… — Terry Pratchett
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of… — Charles Lamb
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry… — Joshua Reynolds
This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every corner of a room Where… — Spike Milligan
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right… — Alice James
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and… — Rajneesh
When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and has… — James Rickards
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do… — Swami Vivekananda
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the… — Jonathan Schell
To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth. — Unknown Author
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from. — Bertrand Russell
Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we all… — Lebbeus Woods
We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how… — Zhuangzi
Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses… — Bruce Friedrich
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. — W. Somerset Maugham
Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then… — Tyler Cowen
Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape. — Nigel Slater
John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him. — Cynthia Lennon
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the… — Edward S. Curtis
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner… — Abraham Kuyper
You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order to get free:… — Unknown Author
The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape. — William Strunk, Jr.

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