Escape Quotes
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The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
Euripides -
Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
Gay Talese
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In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
Norm MacDonald -
To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.
C. Day Lewis -
I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don't mind leaving nearly everything behind.
Beth Revis -
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.
Aristotle -
For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
Ernest Cline
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Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.
Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction -
I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
Andy Griffith -
Unlike Europeans who immigrated to this land to escape from tyranny, Africans came in chains to serve a nation of tyrants.
James Hal Cone -
He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.
Kanan Makiya -
No one can escape his destiny.
Plato -
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I was taken in the middle of the river as I was crossing at a shallow place to make my escape.
Sacagawea -
Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.
Rachel Caine -
No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
Gautama Buddha -
Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?
Marina Tsvetaeva -
To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
Plato -
Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
Homer -
There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes you away from the unhappiness or torture of where you are and makes you feel less alienated-you believe there is a place you fit in somewhere else. The other is a sort of transcendent, spiritual feeling in the purity of music.
Michael Stipe R.E.M. -
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
Ben Nicholson