Escaping Quotes

• Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

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• War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

  Philip Caputo

  War, Mean, Marine

  Philip Caputo (2014). “A Rumor of War”, p.6, Macmillan

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  The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Change, Lying

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

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• I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Actors, Kind

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  You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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• Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

  Michael Chabon

  Anxiety, Forget, Reserves

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

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• My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Giving, Youth

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

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• Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

  Edith Piaf

  Singing, World, Earth

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• To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

  Jose Bergamin

  Hope, Despair, Age

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• I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

  Ransom Riggs

  Dream, Home, Missing

  "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children". Book by Ransom Riggs, 2011.

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• In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

  Peter L. Berger

  Economy, Individual, Possibility

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• Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Trust, Taken, Risk

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• My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Character, World, Film

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• I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

  Jon Crosby

  Anger, Simple, Talking

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• I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

  Adrian Grenier

  New York, Twins, Separation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Education, Fear, Lying

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.7, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Life, Thank You, Thankful

  "After Very Visible Roles, Lupita Nyong'o Looks To Disappear Into Character". Interview with Neda Ulaby, www.npr.org. April 23, 2016.

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• No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Population, Violence

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• A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

  Benton MacKaye

  Nature, Effort, Secret

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• The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Jesus, Lakes

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.373, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

  Hakim Bey

  Change, Art, Truth

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.39, Autonomedia

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• Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.

  Rama Swami

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Yoga

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• There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Time, Pain, Blow

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• I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.

  Alfred Wainwright

  Life, Spiritual, Disappointment

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