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Quotes About Escaping

Your thoughts always create your emotions. Understanding the significance of this fact is the first step in escaping from unhappiness and depression.
~ Richard Carlson
The essence of this detrimental effect is a confusion in the child's concept of his own self-esteem—basic feelings of inferiority, conflict, confusion in his self-image, resentment, hostility towards himself, hostility towards whites, intensification of Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a desire to resolve his basic conflict by sometimes escaping or withdrawing.
~ Richard Kluger
Suddenly you began to sob. It was an unnerving sound, like air escaping from a faucet when the water stops.
~ K?b? Abe
There was a tear in the sleeve of her blouse. Her pink nail polish had chipped. Details were escaping her. I sympathized.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Regrets when you're dead? A past when you're dead? Is there never any escaping the junkyard of the self?
~ Ali Smith
Regrets when you're dead? A past when you're dead? Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?
~ Ali Smith
Strands of his soul were escaping out of his mouth
~ Adam Roberts
Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
Evil is everywhere and nowhere at the same time these days. You only have to read the papers to know there's no escaping it.
~ Robert Masello
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.
~ Edward Gibbon
The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.
~ Judith Lynne Hanna
We are, all of us, wandering about in a state of oblivion, borrowing our time, seizing our days, escaping our fates, slipping through loopholes, unaware of when the axe may fall.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
That means for death, for the final catastrophe in which everything will be buried, because in the dissolution of death a flame is born whose secret is imparted only to those who are then and forever escaping the mould. The secret is incommunicable; it is that last knowledge to which we are driven by our most vital forces, the mystery which makes death not only supportable but desired. Etc. etc.
~ Anais Nin
It's crucial to go further than simply concluding that a student's concerning behaviors are working at getting them something they want (for example, attention) and escaping and avoiding tasks and situations that are difficult, uncomfortable, tedious, or scary. A good functional assessment needs to explain why a student is going about getting, escaping, and avoiding in such a maladaptive fashion (lagging skills) and when that is occurring (unsolved problems).
~ Ross W. Greene
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.
~ Margaret Atwood
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist. I
~ Margaret Atwood
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
~ Kathleen Battle
The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
~ John Maynard Keynes
And fire was evil stuff that delighted in escaping the hands which created it.
~ Stephen King
The fear structure is viewed as a program (in the sense of a computer program) for escaping or avoiding danger and includes several kinds of stored propositions: It includes propositions about threats—when the threat signal (CS) occurs, a bad thing (US) follows; propositions about physiological changes—when the CS occurs, I sweat and my heart beats faster; propositions
~ Joseph LeDoux
All I ever learned was that, having reached that limit, another horizon would open up, and that I had to keep on driving myself, escaping toward a horizon line that was forever receding, until today, here, as I walked beside the frozen river, the entire horizon turned back and came at me from all sides and its lines passed through me, creating a central point that did not impinge on me but rather came back to my hands and feet like a boomerang.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
I wonder — this feeling of insecurity, of vulnerability, of having the carpet pulled out from under one's feet, this fear in the face of the desired but unknown — is this the price that we have to pay to reach towards a future that is constantly escaping us?
~ Slavenka Drakuli?
there are certain traits that God puts in each of us. There's no escaping them.
~ Brad Meltzer