Escape Quotes

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.
James Lane Allen

Great, May, Thoughts

Death was like love, a romantic escape.
Brigitte Bardot

Love, Death, Romantic

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

Again, Places, Hiding

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.
Jonathan Davis

Family, Home, Live

Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Time, Home, Live

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior

Anger, Heart, Hard

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Good, Power, Evil

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Emile M. Cioran

Sleep, Dream, Anyone

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
T. E. Lawrence

Hard, Honor, Dignity

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

Guilty, Innocent, Ten

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
Shania Twain

Music, Great, High

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.
Maria Sharapova

Good, Bad, Everything

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
William Ralph Inge

Time, Best, Often

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
Henry Louis Gates

Hard, Working, Poverty

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.
Haile Gebrselassie

Angry, Father, Him

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.
Robert Anthony

Best, Problem, Solve

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.
Nicole Kidman

Show, Read, Head

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
Helena Bonham Carter

Life, Control, Thought

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
Doris Lessing

Women, Cannot, Fact

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.
Miley Cyrus

Life, Love, Long

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris

Important, Leave, Face

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
Maurice Sendak

Money, Power, Mean

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Life, Funny, Marriage

I don't ever feel the need to escape.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe

Life, Romantic, True

In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.
David Bailey

Good, Pretty, Though

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth

Love, Change, God

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
Andrea Dworkin

Women, Woman, Few

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Marriage, Time

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