Quotes About Escape

Bothwell, an expert seaman, escaped with three of his ships.

All I see is someone running away from who he really is. I ain't running away, I called back. And that was the biggest lie I'd ever told.

The point is very clear: if you are not watching for His coming, you will not be counted "worthy to escape all the things that will come to pass" during the Great Tribulation. If you're not watching for Him, He's not coming for you!

Take me away, and in the lowest deep There let me be...

So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone's older brother and someone's older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure).

But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not. And because that is what happens, this is what we need: we need a good, smart bear.

But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not.

promoted to admiral after a daring escape from the Citadel prison;

Oh ye! Who have your eye-balls vexed and tired, Feast them upon the wideness of the sea

I should like the window to open onto the Lake of Geneva--and there I'd sit and read all day like the picture of somebody reading.

Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don't want to do.

It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace.

Looking back now across fifteen years, I could see with good clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had town from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

We need the tonic of wildness.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.