Escape Quotes - page 3

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. (Peter De Vries)
Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it. View quote
Brian Jacques
My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends. View quote
Cornelia Funke
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly. View quote
Langston Hughes
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. View quote
Arthur Keith
Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. View quote
Keith Henson
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. View quote
Lynda Barry
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. View quote
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Music should be your escape. View quote
Missy Elliott
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre. (Richard Foreman)
I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place. View quote
Zhang Ziyi
Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape. View quote
David Gerrold
I ... thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends. View quote
Alain de Botton
The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition - it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind - yet what miles away in the point of preciousness! View quote
William James
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative - the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time. View quote
Umberto Eco
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. View quote
Graham Greene
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. View quote
John Forbes Nash
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. View quote
Paulo Coelho
When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult. View quote
Pelé
Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are supposed to come to rest at an equilibrium point and that point is supposed to be the same irrespective of the interim fluctuations. Instead, as I told Congress, financial markets behaved more like a wrecking ball, swinging from country to country and knocking over the weaker ones. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the international financial system itself constituted the main ingredient in the meltdown process. (George Soros)
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own. (Hays translation) View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. View quote
Marcus Aurelius