Escaping Quotes - Page 5

• When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

  George Eliot

  Gratitude, Matter, Way

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.244, Penguin

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• To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

  George Eliot

  Men, Docks, Aim

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.290

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• Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.

  Channing Tatum

  Hurt, Getting Hurt

  Source: collider.com

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• The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Past, Russia, Years

  1991 Addressing socialist MPs in Strasbourg, 15 Apr.

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• Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it

  Danielle Trussoni

  Night, Years, Circus

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• When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Safety, Acting, Hiding

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• Morning tide makes a great companion when you don’t want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything. But the sun does. The higher it gets, the more I am reminded that nothing stops time. There is no escaping it.

  Anna Banks

  Morning, People, Comfort

  Anna Banks (2012). “Of Poseidon”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Mean, World

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• There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fighting, Civilization, Tactics

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• The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

  Alan Watts

  Wise, Philosophy, Ignorance

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• Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Real, Joy

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.212, Penguin

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• Usually I'm on top to keep the guy from escaping.

  Lisa Lampanelli

  Sex, Funny Sex, Guy

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• A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

  Pierre Fresnay

  Golf, Tennis, Prison

  "Fictional character: Le captaine de Boeldieu". "La Grande Illusion", www.imdb.com. 1937.

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• Writing is a deeply immersive experience.  When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice.  I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.

  Monica Ali

  Writing, Boredom, House

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• I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering. It’s not to do with vocabulary or meanings, because I know quite a lot of words, but when I come out with them they get confused and scattered. That’s why I avoid stories and speeches and just stick to answering the questions I’m asked. All the extra words, the overflow, I keep to myself, the words that I silently multiply to get close to the truth.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Confused, Vocabulary, Talking

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.18, A&C Black

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• Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

  Alan Rickman

  Who I Am, Play, People

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• The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Way, Prison, Knows

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• So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn
  There's vultures and thieves at your back
  The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies
  That you make up for all that you lack.
  It don't make no difference, escaping one last time
  It's easier to believe
  In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness
  That brings me to my knees.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Song, Sweet, Lying

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• No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Winning, Law, Matter

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• He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.

  Hooman Majd

  Taken, Paris, Issues

  Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.

  Adyashanti

  Love Is, Humanity, Trying

  Adyashanti (2014). “Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic”, p.114, Sounds True

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• Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives - particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  War, Mean, Giving

  "Living in the Present Is a Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Extinction, Earth

  Sir Charles Lyell (1853). “Principles of geology ; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology”, p.696

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• When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

  Billy Campbell

  Dream, Hollywood, Television

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.

  Neil Postman

  Fundamentals, Glory, Dilemma

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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