Escape Quotes
1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors
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The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger…
— Alan Watts
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In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step,…
— Camille Paglia
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In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
— Sargent Shriver
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Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful…
— Terry Gilliam
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Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
— Samuel Johnson
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We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to…
— Albert Camus
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Saying you want to escape is the easy part; actually figuring out how to do it is not quite so simple.
— Kerry Wilkinson
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When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to…
— Pema Chodron
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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with…
— Oscar Wilde
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Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
— Samuel Johnson
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Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those…
— Laozi
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
— Ellis Peters
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I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human…
— Ann Druyan
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Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not…
— F B Meyer
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We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great…
— Frank Pittman
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If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting…
— Amy Lee
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In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of…
— Alfred Brendel
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An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.
— Etty Hillesum
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Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it the Buddha, others…
— Koichi Tohei
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For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.
— Sun Bin
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We dont offer you any solutions necessarily but we definitely offer you a minute to escape.
— Alex Gaskarth
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When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random…
— Nancy Lublin
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Books were my passion and my escape from madness.
— Dorothea Benton Frank
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