Top 297 Escaping Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 7, 2024.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.
There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
When my dreams showed signs
of becoming
politically correct
no unruly images
escaping beyond borders
...
then I began to wonder
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.
There is just no escaping the fact that the single biggest factor determining whether an organization is going to get healthier - or not - is the genuine commitment and active involvement of the person in charge.
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
Every time we visit my sister Karen in New Zealand I spend the next two months Googling properties and dreaming of escaping the British winter.
I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.
If you're drunk please don't drive. If you're on shrooms please don't think Walmart's a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping.
I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.
In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.
There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.
When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom.
When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.
We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.
No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.
We are a country where the ancestors of slaves and newcomers escaping tyranny and violence can rise to the highest positions in the land.
I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.
Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?
The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations.
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.
We all want to be carried away to a whole other world and have romantic tendencies about escaping to an exotic place and being swept off our feet.
Movies, more than anything I can think of, are a great escape from reality. My reality, in particular, needs escaping.
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
I think relaxation is escaping from your everyday encounters. You can read the words on a page and be transported to somewhere else. And the more consumed you are with it, the more you're cocooned.
You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.
The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity
Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.
What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.
For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.
I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping.
