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 not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?
Tom Wolfe

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 heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
Shirley Chisholm

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

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
Frederick The Great

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
Alice Hoffman