Escaping Quotes - Page 11

• Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

  Gayle Forman

  Hands, Feelings, Lust

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.33, Penguin

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• You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

  Bella Pollen

  Needs, Fugitive, Knows

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .

  John Maynard Keynes

  Atheist, Character, Growth

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on of their birth. ... Not political refugees, escaping a repressing regime, nor economic refugees, crossing a border in search of a better-paying job. The are hedonic refugees, moving to a new land, a new culture, because they are happier there. Usually hedonic refugees have an ephiphany, a moment of great clarity when they realize, beyond a doubt, that they were born in the wrong country.

  Eric Weiner

  Country, Jobs, Moving

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• Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, World, Way

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Pygmalion”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

  Mitch Albom

  Might, Misery, Consumed

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• I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Poor, Poor Me, Alas

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• I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Understood, Surround

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• Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?

  Richelle Mead

  Mother, People, Would Be

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.283, Penguin

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• Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Love Is, Feelings

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the degree that Exley was, but I think all writers are. There are highs and lows. Look at David Foster Wallace.

  T.C. Boyle

  Determination, Thinking, Work Ethic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have a story and are always conniving. An ostrich tries to escape from the truth. Isn't an ostrich the thing that puts its head in the sand? But guess what's sticking out when he does it? It's ass, that's what. I don't want a team like that......Because when you have a team like that and trouble comes, that team will not face the trouble.

  John Chaney

  Team, Reality, Ostriches

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• I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. Over time the earth gets compacted, which can't make it easy to dig through. So even if you're a very angry and determined zombie, you've kind of got your work cut out for you just escaping from the grave.

  C.E. Murphy

  Mean, Cutting, Feet

  C.E. Murphy (2009). “Walking Dead”, p.253, Harlequin

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• People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege of being locked up in a freezing, filthy, stinking container ship and hauled like cargo for weeks until they finally arrive in Moscow or Beijing or Baghdad or Kabul. People risk their lives to come here---to New York. The greatest city in the world, where dreams become reality.

  Sean Hannity

  Dream, Country, New York

  Sean Hannity (2002). “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism”, p.8, Dubois Publishing

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• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

  Lauryn Hill

  Successful, Concepts

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.

  Andrew Neel

  Feel Good, Hopeful, Intellectual

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor.

  Hideo Kojima

  Reality, Games, Needs

  Source: www.ign.com

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