Escape Quotes - page 11

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. (Ellis Peters)
One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year. View quote
Andrew Greeley
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. View quote
Anne Sullivan Macy
I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty. View quote
Brendan Coyle
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another. View quote
Buffalo Bill
I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun. View quote
Barry Hannah
Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it. View quote
Chantal Kreviazuk
If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'. View quote
Claude Vorilhon
The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters. View quote
Colin Greenwood
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. View quote
David Knopfler
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel. (David Macaulay)
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape. View quote
Diego Corrales
I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality. View quote
Danny Masterson
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind. View quote
Ella Maillart
I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living. View quote
Emily Browning
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions. View quote
Gerard Arpey
He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me. View quote
Haile Gebrselassie
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. View quote
James Lane Allen
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. View quote
John Candy
I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape. View quote
Josh Ryan Evans
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women. (Lael Brainard)
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so. View quote
Louise Brown
Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape. View quote
Michelle Malkin
The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime. View quote
Neil Tennant
One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it. View quote
Nellie Melba