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Quotes About Escape

There is no room for Judah's thinking that its position as the people of God means it will escape if its stance toward Yahweh is no different from theirs.
~ John E. Goldingay
To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But it's really not so simple. I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also.
~ John F. Nash
I looked at the faces around me and I knew mine was like theirs. Faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colours draining fast. I had to get away from that town.
~ John Fante
Leave town, Henry. Leave before they trap you
~ John Fante
Then he had run, unarmed and bleeding, trusting to the maze like confusion of the ruins to evade the monster behind him.
~ John Flanagan
Every dog knew that if you didn't eat beef the moment it was set before you, it had a tendency to escape.
~ John Flanagan
Ze zagen eruit alsof ze door hellehonden op de hielen werden gezeten.' Ze zweeg even en haalde haar schouders op. 'Wat eigenlijk ook wel zo was,' voegde ze eraan toe.
~ John Flanagan
Rikard nodded. Once Andras and the Raven's crew members left, he thought, he'd give them time to get clear. Then he and his men would head for the Stingray, moored against the quay in the inner harbor. Let Raven's crew do the fighting, he thought. They could keep the enemy occupied while Stingray slipped away.
~ John Flanagan
Rockets and Quasars Rockets and quasars Planets and stars. I'm fed up with Earth So I'll see you on Mars. John Rice
~ John Foster
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
~ John Fowles
And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted!
~ John Galsworthy
If with me you'd fondly stray.Over the hills and far away.
~ John Gay
I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys...
~ John Geddes
I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...
~ John Geddes A Familiar Rain
Run,Nathan,run. Run as if your life depended on it.
~ John Gilstrap
If a man couldn't escape what he came from, we would most of us still be peasants in Old World hovels. But if, having escaped or not, he wants in some way to know himself, define himself, and tries to do it without taking into account the thing he came from, he is writing without any ink in his pen.
~ John Graves
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
~ John Green
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
~ John Green
Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.
~ John Green
We all use the future to escape the present.
~ John Green
For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her.
~ John Green
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.
~ John Guare
Gregson?' 'Why, because he ran off
~ John Hall
By choosing reading you've chosen one of the best ways to reduce stress. It was found to be 68 per cent better at reducing stress levels than listening to music, 300 per cent better than going for a walk and 700 per cent more than playing video games22
~ John Hudson