Quotes with escape

Quotes 21 till 40 of 120.

  • A.L. Rowse Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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  • Christopher Fry Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
    Christopher Fry
    English poet and playwright (1907 - 2005)
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  • William S. Burroughs Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Carl Levin Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Sir Walter Scott Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Matthew Prior 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
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ben Elliot For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Nathaniel Branden For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Peter de Vries Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Arthur Keith Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • T. S. Eliot Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Busta Rhymes Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Agatha Christie How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
    Death on the Nile (1937)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Aaron Stanford I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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