Escape Quotes
1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors
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If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you,…
— Martin Van Creveld
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When we started after Osama bin Laden, we really decided to go after the Taliban. And we seemed to be content to kick the Taliban…
— Wesley Clark
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To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something…
— W G Sebald
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I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.
— Liam Hemsworth
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The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to…
— Niger Innis
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My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it,…
— Claes Oldenburg
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When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
— Sean Harris
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A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions…
— Lee Siegel
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I think in the world we need more comedy. I wish so much that we could embrace that side of us more. I love to…
— Unknown Author
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone…
— Karen Abbott
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Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along…
— Robin Wasserman
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We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of…
— Cate Blanchett
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I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.
— Rita Ora
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The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become accustomed to, with…
— Perrey Reeves
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My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome…
— Michelle Magorian
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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on…
— Louis R. Chenevert
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Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
— Nic Pizzolatto
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This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
— Frederick Leboyer
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