Quotes about Escape

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

My! we couldn't get him out, Tom. And besides, 'twouldn't do any good; they'd ketch him again. Yes—so they would. But I hate to hear 'em abuse him so like the dickens when he never done—that. I do too, Tom. Lord, I hear 'em say he's the

We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hairbreadth escape and bloodcurdling adventure which will never be recorded in any history.

I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!

Each of us struggles daily with the pressures of conformity and the loneliness of difference from which those choices seem to offer escape.

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

I like to go to Mauritius on holiday.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present - she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.