Quotes About Escape

Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor. This did not make him anything special, but at least he was good-natured.

What occurred had to do with Will—Sam's fellow slave at Nathaniel Francis's. While submitting to one of his owner's periodical beatings, Will had finally snapped, perpetrating what for a Negro was the gravest of deeds: he had struck Francis back. Not only that, he had struck Francis savagely enough (with a lightwood fagot wrenched from a barnyard stack) as to have broken Francis's left arm and shoulder. Then Will lit out for the woods, and had yet to be found.

there is only one way out—up the chimney.' He

When you think of all the bad people - Poles, Germans, Russians, French, all nationalities - all these evil people who escaped, people who killed Jews who are alive right now. In Germany. And places like Argentina. And my father - this good man - who had to die! Isn't that enough to make you not believe in this God. Who can believe in God who turn His back on people like that?

There is only one way out--up the chimney.

Eugenia and get them out of harm's way.

dreaming about being captured by

Anomie is the condition of our time. We are poisoned by images, an endless sinister fallout of metaphors, full of purpose but devoid of meaning. Like any addict our means of escape is our prison; the remedy is, in fact, a deadly numbing toxin. When the time comes to feel we have lost the neural pathway. Things touch us without our knowing.

looked over to where I had dropped my net. There it was right where I had dropped it; wide open and not a monkey in it. I couldn't believe it. How on earth could the little monkeys have gotten out of the net? My first thought was that the yellow ring had gotten tangled in a bush, and while the monkeys were flouncing

Wishing is like water caught in a dam. You let a little trickle of it escape and you don't think it's much, but in no time the trickle has worn a channel and the edges fall in and the water's doubled and then you get a flood carrying everything away.

Run Forrest, run!

Cierta gente huyendo de otra gente. En cierto país bajo el sol y bajo ciertas nubes.

The track's all yours. We won't get in your way: by then we will have set off chasing ourselves rather than you.

Có? dziwnego zatem, ?e, przera?eni wÅ'asnÄ… sÅ'aboÅ›ciÄ… i ogromem zadaÅ", chowamy gÅ'owÄ™ w piasek i, organizujÄ…c sobie parodiÄ™ przeszÅ'oÅ›ci, uciekamy od Å›wiata w Å›wiatek?

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

I have always hated reality, but it's the only place you can get good chicken wings.

Thálatta! Thálatta!

I do not see how one who is an enemy of the gods can run fast enough away, nor where he can flee to escape, nor what darkness could cover him, nor how he could find a position strong enough for refuge. For all things in all places are subject to the gods, and the power of the gods extends equally over everything.

animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something.

Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something.

to shriek and to slam the door shut repeatedly—with a deafening clang each time—until the keeper, notified by a visitor, hurried over to remedy the situation. A herd of roe-deer in a European zoo stepped out of their corral when the gate was left open. Frightened by visitors, the deer bolted for the nearby forest, which had its own herd of wild roe-deer and could support more. Nonetheless

Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown - and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown. Escaping animals usually hind in the very first place they find that gives them a sense of security, and they are dangerous only to those who happen to get between them and their reckoned safe spot.