Escape Quotes
1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors
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I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why…
— Laurence Sterne
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The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And…
— Arthur W. Pink
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The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
— Karl Marx
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier…
— Jim Rohn
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I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote…
— Alan Keyes
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Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses…
— Pope Francis
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At first we feel called by God and attracted by him. We grow in our vocation and get the impression that God has gripped us…
— Notker Wolf
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We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you…
— Gerald Durrell
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Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them,…
— John G. Lake
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So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not escape the fact.…
— Rajneesh
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But we are not interested in death at all: rather, we escape the facts, we are continuously escaping the facts. Death is there, and every…
— Rajneesh
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few…
— Derrick Bell
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People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery…
— Kenneth Roberts
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People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep love and intimacy,…
— Rajneesh
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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear?…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between…
— Anne Lamott
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I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere…
— M. Ward
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Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of…
— Sri Chinmoy
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements....The conclusion is impossible to escape…
— Louis Thomas McFadden
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I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets…
— Mike Tyson
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There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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