Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs seeking escape from life within huge corporate structures, ‘How do I build a small firm for myself?’ The… — Paul Ormerod
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the… — Abraham Lincoln
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done. — Horatio Nelson
Janetty tried to dive through the window to escape, what an act of cowardice. — Bobby Heenan
The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the… — Pete Earley
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was… — Oscar Wilde
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape. — Angus Wilson
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives.… — Parker J. Palmer
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action… — Charles R. Johnson
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art… — Iggy Azalea
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings… — H. L. Mencken
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Movies are about escape. — George A. Romero
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. — Cesare Pavese
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor… — Learned Hand
A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed. — Victor Hugo
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this… — Benjamin Carson
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the… — Katherine Mansfield
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be… — C.S. Lewis
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose. — Sara Teasdale
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he… — Margaret Mead
To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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