Quotes with escape

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  • Brigitte Bardot I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Horace I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Dean William R. Inge I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Adam Baldwin I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Barry Hannah I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de  Sévigné If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
    French letter writer and aristocrat (1626 - 1696)
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  • Ram Dass If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
    Ram Dass
    American spiritual teacher, psychologist and author (1931 - 2019)
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  • Ben Nicholson 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
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Bill Bradley 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
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville 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
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Camille Paglia In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont 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.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Sir William Blackstone It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
    Sir William Blackstone
    English jurist, judge and politician
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  • W. Blackstone It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
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  • Thomas Jefferson It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Shirley Chisholm 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
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Frederick the Great 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
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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