Quotes and Sayings About Escaping
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...
-- Abraham Verghese -
No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart
-- Adam Lambert -
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 -
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder
-- Adrienne Rich -
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 -
Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
-- Alan Rickman -
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
-- Albert Camus -
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.
-- Alfred Sheinwold -
There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
Morning tide makes a great companion when you don’t want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything. But the sun does. The higher it gets, the more I am reminded that nothing stops time. There is no escaping it.
-- Anna Banks -
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.
-- Ayn Rand -
You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.
-- Bella Pollen -
When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.
-- Billy Campbell -
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence
-- Billy Corgan -
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 -
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.
-- Channing Tatum -
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 -
If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.
-- Charles Mingus -
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
-- Charlie Hunnam -
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies
-- Chris Kattan -
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
-- Chris Van Hollen -
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
-- Clark Moustakas -
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 -
If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.
-- Clive Anderson -
She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.
-- Connie Brockway -
You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life
-- Dainin Katagiri
