Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness… — Eric Hoffer
You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right. — John Updike
You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it. — Pablo Picasso
The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this. — Henry Moore
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm. — Agnes Repplier
If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch,… — Georges Braque
Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. — Camille Paglia
It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads… — Theophile Gautier
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But… — David Hume
My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and… — Andrew Wyeth
Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches. — Patricia K Page
To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with… — Cecil Day-Lewis
Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to… — A.J. Cronin
I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat. — Sharon Stone
The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation. — Gustave Le Bon
My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born… — Ang Lee
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and… — William Graham Sumner
The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on… — Jack White
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence. — Wyndham Lewis
The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would… — Teresa of Avila
At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with… — Louise Bourgeois
I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of… — Joan Miro
Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a… — Lawren Harris
One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up… — Will Rogers
Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others. — Theodore Roosevelt

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