Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape… — Ellen Sussman
I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred'… — Jason Gann
The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more… — Jason Gann
It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Art is the escape from personality. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a… — Alphonsus Liguori
The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the… — Lester Levenson
Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being… — Zelig Pliskin
When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape. — Bodhidharma
America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where… — Gregory A. Boyd
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. — Shirley Chisholm
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours,… — Mark Hertsgaard
In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's… — Frederick Lenz
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute… — Ayn Rand
I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something? — Christopher Bollen
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in… — Mahatma Gandhi
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and… — Horace
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find… — Robert A. Heinlein
Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy. — Robert A. Heinlein
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. — Nicolas Chamfort
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. — Jean de la Bruyere
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world… — Stephen Jay Gould
The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In… — Eric Hoffer

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