Escape Quotes
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Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
Gay Talese -
I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.
Donald Fagen Steely Dan
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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 -
If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
M. Night Shyamalan -
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 -
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 -
For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
Ernest Cline -
Unlike Europeans who immigrated to this land to escape from tyranny, Africans came in chains to serve a nation of tyrants.
James Hal Cone
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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 -
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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 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 -
I was taken in the middle of the river as I was crossing at a shallow place to make my escape.
Sacagawea -
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
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Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?
Marina Tsvetaeva -
No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
Gautama Buddha -
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 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 -
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 his destiny.
Plato
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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 -
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 -
Until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is 'not you' flow over and engulf you, there can be no lasting sense of security. Only by being prepared to accept annihilation can one escape from that spiritual 'abiding alone' which is in fact the truly death-like state.
Marion Milner -
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