Quotes About Escape

Eles amaldiçoam e proíbem as minhas palavras todos os dias e todos os seus pensamentos são para me fazer mal... vigiam cada passo que dou, como podem conduzir a minha alma para uma armadilha... obstruem o meu caminho, para que não consiga escapar.

This philosophy means that when you've entered a den of assholes, you do everything possible to get out as fast as you can—or, better yet, to figure out how to avoid that lair in the first place. I call this the "da Vinci rule." As Leonardo da Vinci put it, "It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

As they put it, "once the door to the stall is closed, it is transformed into the occupying individual's private, albeit temporary, retreat from the demands of public life.

Slater was so fed up that he got on the microphone and cussed out passengers, grabbed two beers, and then activated and slid down the emergency escape slide.

1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape, so that you are able to bear it.

Carlisle wondered if it was still possible for him to live alongside civilization and yet be somewhat apart from it. Find a slice of quiet in the layers of noise, conduct a rain into the noise now and then for some work, take the gold and run like hell back to the quiet place....Flight was no good. You couldn't escape it, whatever 'it' was.

To retreat behind the notion that the audience simply wants to dump its troubles at the door and escape reality is a cowardly abandonment of the artist's responsibility. Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to make sense out of the anarchy of existence.

inspiring. I wanted out of the employee trap so badly that I worked even harder so I could invest more.

across Jefferson Square to sanctuary in the inn. Good god, he thought, what have I gotten

He probably was happy, too, to get away from his mother!)

At first Lissar merely ran away; away from the yellow city, away from the prince whom she loved with both halves of her broken heart.

Reread your favorite novel, the one you only let yourself read any more when you're sick in bed.

My love of books was all that saved me.

That if I pretended hard enough nothing was waiting to claim me, nothing ever would.

I think you grow up different, by the water. You grow up knowing there's a way out.

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing on everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. She would always be confined by what everyone expected of her because she was too afraid and too unwilling to correct our imperfect imaginings.

We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary--made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it's whether or not you want to. I think I'll stick with reality, I said, handing Cassidy back her phone. She stared at it, and then me, disappointed. I'd think you of all people would want to escape. Imaginary prisoners are still prisoners.

I was going. I couldn't stay here. Every breath of its stale air, every square inch of the place mocked me, grabbed at my ankles. It needed blood to survive and it wasn't going to get mine.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Without a criterion enabling us to distinguish genuine human rights from the many impostors we will never be sure that our legal provisions, however wise, benevolent and responsible, will be secure against the individual desire to escape from them.

What do you call a clairvoyant midget who just broke out of prison? A small medium at large!

What should I do?' Coyote yelled. 'Cultivate philosophy and run like hell,' said Bear...