Quotes About Escape

Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something. Something within their territory has frightened them - the intrusion of an enemy, the assault of a dominant animal, a startling noise - and set off a flight reaction.... 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.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

TO A FRIEND IN SEARCH OF RURAL SECLUSION When all else fails, Try Wales.

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

For young Brits like Xan and Paddy, brute force was everything they were trying to escape. Biê was boarding school beatings, Victorian prudishness, the blind obedience to the dogma of "Theirs not to make reply, / Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die" that sent their fathers and brothers marching into machine-gun fire during the Great War. Weirdly, religion had a lot to

running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. And when things look worst, we run the most.

Every summer, he leaves his hut and rides buses

Snails were freedom fighters' food; you could harvest them on the run and they'd go dormant and keep fresh in your pockets until you were in the clear to cook. The

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it. If you are here to be offended, may your ire rise and your blood boil. If you seek an adventure, may this song sing you away to blissful escape. If you need to test or confirm your beliefs, may you reach comfortable conclusions. All books reveal perfection, by what they are or what they are not. May you find that which you seek, in these pages or outside them. May you find perfection, and know it by name.

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

Oh, silly woman! Leave your stove, your pots and pans and chores, even if only for one day! Come out and see the sun in the sky and the river in the distance!

For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

Il paradiso del mondo di là è incerto, ma vi è effettivamente un cielo su questa terra, un cielo nel quale abitiamo tutti quando leggiamo un buon libro.

For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

Having a little pee in your pants had to be better than being dinner for some redneck.

You don't want their botched text. You want the breath, pulse and footfall of the girl who dashed out into sunlight like today's through where maybe that door was – then slammed it behind her.

I had learned very early that not getting caught was just about the solution to every problem. If you were caught then those who hadn't yet been caught had to make an example of you, unless of course you knew the right people.

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.

You don't stop being who you are just because you've run away.

How loud did the music have to be to drown out her thoughts?

Lucius had told him word was out that he was dead. Han decided that being dead made travel much easier.