Escape Quotes

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

I don't think I can ever escape from music.

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.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

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.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

I don't ever feel the need to escape.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.