Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer… — Jonathan Evison
It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting… — Sarah Polley
We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes.… — Donald Antrim
A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way — Vernon Howard
We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their… — Eleanor Brown
Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross. — D. A. Carson
Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the… — Pete Townshend
There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is… — Dalai Lama
Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is… — Robert Fulghum
I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could… — Suzanne Farrell
Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped. — Alex Haley
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't… — Ben Nicholson
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there… — George R. Stewart
It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no… — Ruskin Bond
Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another. — Gary Gygax
Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my… — Amelia Gray
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book.… — Rebecca Mead
We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep… — Ace Antonio Hall
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and… — Paul Shepard
This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf… — Horace Annesley Vachell
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that… — Charles Guggenheim
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable. — Tennessee Williams
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one. — Vernon Howard
When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life,… — Henri Nouwen
GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search.… — Unknown Author

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