Quotes About Escape

cuando uno patina sobre hielo fino, la salvación es la velocidad. Cuando

En cuanto al poder, se aleja a toda vela de la calle y del mercado, de las asambleas y de los parlamentos, de los gobiernos locales y de los nacionales, más allá del alcance del control de los ciudadanos, hacia la extraterritorialidad de las redes electrónicas. En la actualidad, los principios estratégicos favoritos de los que tienen el poder son el escape, la evasión y la retirada, y su estado ideal es la invisibilidad.

Can a man escape what Fate has doomed? It is useless for a man to be anxious the last days of his life.

But the marriage remained miserable. Marie-Henriette fled the royal château of Laeken to go horseback riding for most of each day.

Thousands of refugees who had fled across the Congo River to escape Leopold's regime eventually fled back to escape the French. The

Back to his various modes of escape and survival. Because you have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

I was so in love I went into my room and drank half a bottle of Robitussin.

After his rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," Welton just stared straight ahead at the alter as if he were waiting for Jesus to climb down off the cross and escape with him. They would load up in Dantly's Skylark and the three of them would go score some Ex in Cedar Rapids. Jesus would like totally ride shotgun and scout for cops.

Well, naturally, some of the animals must have escaped from the Wild World Animal Park, and part of it tried to remember if anyone in school ever told us what to do when faced with a lion; but no, of course they didn't, they were too busy teaching really useful things like the state capitals.

Fire became an enemy only if you couldn't move.

a dozen...chocolate chip cookies...a pot of coffee, and a good book are all I will need for the rainy weekend rolling in.

I stay on terra firma under an umbrella with a good book. That's my idea of the shore.

Yet the insidious guile of god—what mortal man can escape it? Who with agile foot can lightly overleap and escape its toils?

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, propriety, autonomy, and voice. It is not about retreating from the digital world but about finding some genuine alternative to a life of perpetual display.

Submerged, I have become a refugee from the visible world.

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?

The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away—to go, as he concluded, 'anywhere! anywhere! so long as it is out of the world!

We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as ideal as we are corrupt.

If we find poetry in the service station and motel, if we are drawn to the airport or train carriage, it is perhaps because, in spite of their architectural compromises and discomforts, in spite of their garish colours and harsh lighting, we implicitly feel that these isolated places offer us a material setting for an alternative to the selfish ease, the habits and confinement of the ordinary, rooted world.

Sex gets us out of the house and out of ourselves.

How pleasant to hold in mind, through the crevasses of our moods, at three in the afternoon when lassitude and despair threaten, that there is always a plane taking off for somewhere.