Top 100 Quotes About Escaping
#1. As far as escaping and making plays, I have a lot of faith in our line.
Josh Freeman
#2. And fire was evil stuff that delighted in escaping the hands which created it.
Stephen King
#3. When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.
Kahlil Gibran
#4. My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.
Lykke Li
#5. Among the nation's 100 largest counties, the one where children face the worst odds of escaping poverty is the city of Baltimore, the study found.
Anonymous
#6. Having jettisoned all my ballast, I concentrated on escaping.
Walter Moers
#7. Just understanding life as it is, and living it with courage; not escaping from it, not hiding from it, facing it with courage, whatsoever it is, good or bad, divine or evil, heaven or hell.
Osho
#8. Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him.
Vaclav Havel
#10. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
#11. I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.
Woody Allen
#12. Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making
trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.
George Bernard Shaw
#13. When you have the urge to run away, you are feeding into fearful thoughts that keep you stuck. What benefit are you gaining by escaping? Is there a payoff to procrastinating?
Scott Allan
#14. Escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
Terry Pratchett
#15. In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
Peter L. Berger
#16. Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
Michael Chabon
#17. Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.
Charles Lyell
#18. Resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.
N. T. Wright
#19. Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#20. If God is love, if God is gift given eternally, then our participation in the life of God happens not by escaping our everyday world, but by entering more deeply into the life of love and that paradoxical logic of gift in that we receive most richly only when we make "gifting" others a way of life.
Richard R. Gaillardetz
#21. By the time you turn thirty, your life is about escaping the person you've become in order to escape the person you've become in order to escape the person you started as.
Chuck Palahniuk
#22. I think back to the last thing Dave said to me and try to imagine what escaping oxygen would look like. It looks a lot like drowning.
A.S. King
#23. The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .
John Maynard Keynes
#24. The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.
Boris Yeltsin
#25. What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.
Michael Leunig
#26. despair of ever making it out of slavery and the slum. Psychologists often see the same resistance to escaping in women who are in abusive relationships. They may live in fear and pain, but they refuse to leave the abuser because they are more fearful of the unknown.
Nick Vujicic
#27. I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.
Adrian Grenier
#28. I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
Jon Crosby
#29. That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.
Julie Walters
#30. This is the part of the story where we should have been caught, but we weren't. If we'd been found, and punished, I'd probably be telling a different story. A better one? I doubt that. A couple of us would have been spared some pain, but there was no escaping all of it.
Sarah Domet
#31. I must not imagine what is 'not' as a means of escaping what 'is'. Rather, I must understand what 'is' and imagine how I can make it what it is 'not'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#32. I'm not one that really soaks up the limelight. I'm OK with kind of escaping it.
Derek Drouin
#33. Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
Bram Stoker
#34. Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe
#35. Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
Into different lives, or into any future;
You are not the same people who left that station
Or who will arrive at any terminus,
While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
T. S. Eliot
#36. Failure to recognize the difficulty in escaping a situation of high debt intolerance simply through growth and gently falling ratios of debt to GNP is one of the central errors underlying many standard calculations employed both by the private sector and by official analysts during debt crises.
Anonymous
#37. The dream of radical transformation: of one day waking up and finding himself a wholly different (more confident, more serene) kind of person, of escaping that prison of the given, of feeling divinely capable.
Jonathan Franzen
#38. When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.
Billy Campbell
#39. Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one's business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don't see them that way. Yet.
Tammara Webber
#40. These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.
Charles Dickens
#41. I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.
Umberto Eco
#42. If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.
Marvin Gaye
#43. There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant proportion of infrared radiation from escaping into space.
George W. Bush
#44. Walking the blood means walking with the escaping suspect or the fleeing victim, it means you find the trail and see what songs it wants to sing you.
Ben H. Winters
#45. To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
Jose Bergamin
#46. The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
Alan Dershowitz
#47. The process of recovering from addictiveness happens at a deeper level of consciousness and through feeling our pain without using old addictive fixes. There is no escaping that getting in touch with our original pain is the touchstone to mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Christopher Dines
#48. I woke up in a dark room. The first thing I noticed was that my hands and wrists were not tied. That made me frustrated, because that meant that I was somewhere really isolated. It meant that they thought, and were probably correct, that I had no chance of escaping.
Embee
#49. Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor.
Hideo Kojima
#50. There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
Elizabeth Aston
#51. Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.
Frank Bidart
#52. In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.
Dominique Moceanu
#53. Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.
Blaise Pascal
#54. But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the 'destiny' my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.
Claudia Gray
#55. Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
Edith Piaf
#56. In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.
Muhammad Al-Baqir
#57. Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.
Dan Pearce
#58. Who are these people?" my mother asked.
"Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?
Richelle Mead
#59. As equally as one may use size, the cunning James Crosbie was once classified as the most dangerous man in Scotland, notorious for his daring bank robberies and escaping on a bicycle. He was the criminal mastermind behind many successful crimes carried out throughout the UK.
Stephen Richards
#60. Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.
Lucy Grealy
#61. I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.
Ben Barnes
#62. Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.
Channing Tatum
#63. When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
Tamsin Egerton
#64. If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!
John G. Lake
#65. Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you're busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf
Susana Fortes
#66. To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
Tacitus
#67. When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born
not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
Adyashanti
#68. Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.
Gayle Forman
#69. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept. To
Samuel Beckett
#70. Depression is evil. Before you know it, it takes over and there's no escaping it.
E.L. Montes
#71. Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the degree that Exley was, but I think all writers are. There are highs and lows. Look at David Foster Wallace.
T.C. Boyle
#72. I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
Al Pacino
#73. I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.
Jonas Gahr Store
#74. The worst situation with radiation escaping is if you are downwind from it. You could virtually be on one side and not affected by the radiation. If you're on the other side and you're downwind from it, you are going to be affected.
Rudy Giuliani
#75. You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.
Markus Zusak
#76. My mind became a sanctuary for secret thoughts of escaping from this household.
Tehmina Durrani
#77. Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce
#78. He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.
Lev Shestov
#79. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
#80. Wealth will always find a way of escaping from societies without an established system of truth and honesty, into societies that are well established in truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
#81. He hobbled on, hoping they were close to escaping. But escaping to where?
S.D. Smith
#82. My Solo Adventure #1- Bali: Imagination unlocked, escaping a cage drawn by a relentless life. Soul freed, reaching beyond the hidden dimensions of an uncertain universe. Thirst. Hunger. Rebirth. For forever we are greedy.
Abeer Allan
#83. I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.
Ernest Cline
#84. It is exceptionally lonely, being Draco Malfoy. I will always be suspected. There is no escaping the past.
J.K. Rowling
#85. I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
David Lloyd
#86. I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.
John Glover
#87. Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested.
Terry Pratchett
#88. The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.
John Muir
#89. By now I'm done expecting a laugh from this girl, but she suprises me, letting out a little giggle that reminds me of a rainbow escaping from a mud puddle.
Lauren Layne
#90. Missing someone is a vague, unpleasant sensation, like gnawing anxiety. It isn't as concrete as grief, but it's just as pervasive and there's no escaping it.
Sue Grafton
#91. The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.
Flannery O'Connor
#92. It was almost as if reality had finally caught up to us, as if up until this point we'd actually had a chance of escaping it.
Rhonda James
#93. We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)
Pema Chodron
#94. Life is about balance. It's not about forgetting the bad times or escaping them. It's about creating enough good times to outweigh the bad.
Tommy Cotton
#95. I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#96. Never worry about what you are escaping from," he said. "Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to.
Michael Chabon
#97. Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.
Criss Angel
#98. There are certain traits that God puts in each of us. There's no escaping them.
Brad Meltzer
#99. Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.
Paul Auster
#100. Certainly if after escaping from the defilements of the world by an accurate knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they get involved again with these very things and are overcome, their final state has become worse for them than the first.
Anonymous
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