Quotes About Escape

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

threw Tove right into the midst of the political whirlpool. Both she and Henry Rein barely escaped prosecution for 'insulting the leader of a friendly foreign power',

Thus this book is an expression not only of my own evolution, but of a part of society's evolution as well, a society I live in and that, like me, wishes to live in habitations where humor and the possibility of metaphysical escape reign supreme. BOHUMIL HRABAL, 1965

con un libro en la mano abro mis atemorizados ojos a un mundo extraño, distinto de aquel en el que me hallaba hace apenas un instante porque yo, cuando me sumerjo en la lectura, estoy en otra parte, dentro del texto, me despierto sorprendido y reconozco con culpa que efectivamente vuelvo de un sueño, del más bello de los mundos, del corazón mismo de la verdad.

Swimming is the second most popular recreational activity in America, outranked only by walking. But swimming is the one that quite literally takes us out of our element.

The water is the last place where people cannot text, call or find me," she says with a giggle.

Swimming has always been a means of escape: physical, spiritual, mental. And if that's true, then what better place is there for a swim team than a war zone?

I want to run, I want to hide, I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside. I want to reach out and touch the plains, Where the streets have no names.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority. Hence labour was something that both races on the slave plantation sought to escape.

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

first, it is of vital importance that you learn to be lost both in experience and in your mind, but not permanently, so that you get the avenue of escape each offers from the other.

In the movies, killers are omnipotent. In real life, they are not. They don't escape from handcuffs in the middle of a high-security federal penitentiary.

Whenever he visited, Broome couldn't help but think, It could have been me. One would have thought that would lead to a strong yearning on his part. It did and it didn't. His most immediate and powerful reaction was relief—a there-but-for-the-grace-of-God, whistling-past-the-graveyard sort of escape from his own destiny. But then, well, he looked at Erin's face and all that fell away. Years

Heard you beat up a cop." "No." "In New York City. Said so on the news. He's in the hospital." "I was just trying to escape." "Still, my man. Props to you." "Yeah," the other goon says, speaking for the first time. "Props.

The rust on the fire escape was so thick that tetanus seemed a far greater threat than smoke inhalation.

Does he have a record?" Perlmutter asked. "He was let out of Walden three months ago." "For?" "Armed assault," Daley said. "Wu cut a deal on that Scope case. I called and asked around. This is one very bad man." "How bad?" "Poop-in-your-pants bad. If ten percent of the rumors about this guy are true, I'm sleeping with my Barney the Dinosaur night-lite on.

I stepped into the kitchen. I didn't close the door behind me. I wanted a quick escape in case . . . well, whatever. The

A dozen thoughts hit me all at once. The biggest was a one-word command: RUN! I had watched the horror movies, the ones where the mentally malnourished airhead goes into the house alone, sneaking around like, well, like me, and then ends up with an ax between the eyes. From the safety of my seat in the cineplex, I had scoffed at their idiocy and now, here I was, in Bat Lady's lair, and someone else was here, in the basement. Why

The danger of video games was that they shut the world out. The beauty of video games was that they shut the world out.

I mean, what do you do, when you find that things are not what you were taught they're supposed to be? What do you do with the desperation that boils up from your stomach when you know there's a road out there with your destination at the end of it, but it's too damned dark to even find the road? You turn and turn and turn around like a dog trying to escape. Shrieks in the cavity of your head that so urgently needs to be filled with facts and challenges.

She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud.

Und so sagte ich ihr, dass ich ihrem Daddy wehtun müsste, damit wir fliehen könnten, und da trat ein Ausdruck in ihre Augen, den ich gut kannte. Denn trotz ihrer Wohlanständigkeit mochte Quilla June ihren gottesfürchtigen Daddy nicht besonders gern.

Everyone has, or should have, a desert island list against that day when, fleeing one's enemies, one is cast ashore, or when one limps away, all warfare done, to pass the rest of one's time quietly reading. If

Everyone has, or should have, a desert island list against that day when, fleeing one's enemies, one is cast ashore, or when one limps away, all warfare done, to pass the rest of one's time quietly reading.