I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.
Amanda Beard

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'.
Claude Vorilhon

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Paul Eldridge

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
Ram Dass

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
Ben Nicholson

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"
Bill Bradley

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

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.
James L. Buckley

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

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Lou Holtz

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
Henry Rollins

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

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow

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

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

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

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Hesiod

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