Escape Quotes

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head?

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

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.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

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.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

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.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.