The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Victor Hugo

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott

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.
Wendell Berry

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

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
Charles Rangel

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
Elia Kazan

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.
Samuel Johnson

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Alice James

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.
Colin Greenwood

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.
Pia Zadora

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.
Albert Camus

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
Thomas Clarkson

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.
Pete Domenici

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

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Roland Barthes

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
Charles Guggenheim

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
James Randi

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.
Philip Hone

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
E. T. A. Hoffmann