Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative… — Thomas Merton
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they start trapping it… — Rajneesh
Meditation doesn't lead you to silence; meditation only creates the situation in which the silence happens. And this should be the criterion - that whenever… — Rajneesh
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last… — Joseph Addison
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? — John Churton Collins
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave. — Horace
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others. — Samuel Johnson
I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver. — Adolf Eichmann
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. — John Lancaster Spalding
Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and… — Thomas Jefferson
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due… — John Herschel
Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic. — Albert Einstein
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful. — Thucydides
Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the… — Terry Brooks
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation… — Neil Simon
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of… — Thomas Merton
All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush… — H. L. Mencken
Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we… — William J. Clinton
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be… — Dan Barker
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange… — Ayn Rand
...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape… — Lucretius
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true… — Dalai Lama
You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit. — David Ryan
Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice;… — John Bunyan

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