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Quotes About Escape

Have you ever seen somebody die? It's not like in the movies, not to me. You don't close their peaceful eyes and pray for their soul. Rather their eyes are full of horror. People say taken in the flower of their youth, how sad yet these people get to escape a lifetime of hell and still people mourn. I laugh in honor of the dead. may they rot in peace.
~ Scott C. Holstad
i drive 160 on the freeway in the hopes of a fiery escape my major x-mas wish and like everyone else i get shit life on a razor's edge words that kill and guns that don't
~ Scott C. Holstad
My job was to make sure that my pain was not visible to the audience. They came to escape their troubles, not to be drawn into my own pain.
~ Scott Hamilton
Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.
~ Scott Lynch
He was bewildered at how quickly he had escaped his old life and fallen into this new one with strangely pleasant crazy people.
~ Scott Lynch
Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.
~ Scott Lynch
Tonight is delicate business," said Drakasha. "Misstepping in Port Prodigal after midnight is like pissing on an angry snake. I need—" "Ahem," said Locke. "Originally, we're from Camorr." "Be on the boat in five minutes," said Drakasha.
~ Scott Lynch
Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours. Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend.
~ Scott Lynch
She ran, as best she could run; as she made her way toward the rail it became a jog, and then a desperate hop. She was on fire all the way, screaming all the way, unstoppable all the way.
~ Scott Lynch
It's things like this that makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit life out here can be.
~ Scott Lynch
but tonight I'm on leave from everything. No 'Spire, no archon, no Durenna, no Lexicon, no navigational tables. Just simple arithmetic. Drink plus drinker equals drunk. Join me.
~ Scott Lynch
It's things like this makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit life out here can be.
~ Scott Lynch
So this is it. This is the Great Escape. Is it wrong for us to want this? I keep thinking, if there are so many worlds, who decided which one to put us on? No one asked us what we wanted. Don't we have the right to look for something more? We'll be back; we know we can't stay away forever. But just for a while...just for a while.
~ Scott McCloud
before getting shot, he would never nail both of the armed men from thirty yards away. He could also duck into the water and swim downstream, but he didn't think he could hold his breath long enough to get out of range. That was assuming the rapids ahead were even deep enough to conceal him. "What do you want?" DeVontay said, stalling for time.
~ Scott Nicholson
If you run, your enemy will hunt you. Kill your enemy, and you are forever free.)
~ Scott Sigler
A house stained by spilled blood cannot escape the harsh sentence passed by rumor.
~ Scott Thomas
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (1 Cor. 10:13)
~ Scotty Smith
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. (2 Pet. 1:4 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
for who could be blind to the evidence of his eyes, the obviousness of that hall-watcher's hate? Whoever escaped kept a weather-eye open and moved away.
~ Seamus Heaney
O hide me, hide me from myself
~ Seamus Heaney translation
Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.
~ Groucho Marx
When I have extra time I just go out to the Hamptons. I have a house in Southampton I go out to as much as I possibly can.
~ Hilary Rhoda
Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?
~ Kelley Armstrong
The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went.
~ Anna Lee