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A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard
I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes. -- Jeri Ryan
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. -- C. S. Lewis
Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over. -- Joshua Slocum
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. -- Henry David Thoreau
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion. -- Lynn Margulis
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. -- Salman Rushdie
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. -- Ernest Renan
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. -- Thomas Carlyle
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. -- Stephen Covey
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh. -- Mike Pence
Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both. -- Michael Leunig
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. -- Rose Wilder Lane
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. -- John Calvin
No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us. -- Nicholas Brendon
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. -- T. S. Eliot
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. -- Henri Poincare
Every adult has the right to choose who they wish to spend their lives with, and we're all capable of making mistakes, but no one escapes with their self-regard intact. -- Mariella Frostrup
Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things. -- Saint Ambrose
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. -- Slavoj Zizek
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. -- George William Curtis
The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and every life is called to be all that that life is capable of being. -- John Shelby Spong
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. -- Albert Schweitzer
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't. -- Luanne Rice
For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.' -- Jake Paltrow
Only mediocrity escapes criticism. -- John Steinbeck
No one escapes from life alive. -- Michael Crichton
For rarely man escapes his destiny. -- Ludovico Ariosto
Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice. -- Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain. -- Theodore Parker
a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment. -- Regina Maria Roche
Words are nets through which all truth escapes. -- Paula Fox
He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy. -- George Herbert
Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes. -- Tom Stoppard
What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity. -- Heraclitus
There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. -- Norton Juster
But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks? -- Jandy Nelson
Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known. -- Heraclitus
No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice. -- W. H. Auden
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land. -- Annie Dillard
The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes. -- George Edward Woodberry
Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia. -- Ambrose Bierce
The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon. -- Leonid Shamkovich
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering. -- Gilles Deleuze
We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor. -- Euripides
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. -- Anthony Giddens
I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all. -- Alexander Siddig
Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. -- C. S. Lewis
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us. -- Simone Weil
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation. -- Fanny Kemble
To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality. -- Ellen Glasgow
For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.] -- Ludovico Ariosto
When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A soft moan escapes me, making him smile even more. He's too good at this. -- Collette West
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged. -- Mark Twain
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. -- Walter Scott
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors. -- Saadi
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. -- Victor Hugo
It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel. -- Robert Breault
A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity. -- Edgard Varese
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery. -- A. J. P. Taylor
Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life. -- Confucius
There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment. -- Maggie Stiefvater
There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre. -- Propertius
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion. -- Lynn Margulis
The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone. -- Steven Sinofsky
Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes. -- William Cowper
Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God. -- Julia Ward Howe
Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes. -- Yisroel Salanter
Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar. -- Jennifer James
Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me. -- Dick Cavett
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Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing. -- Laura Lam
Some people are so evil when they enter a house; happiness escapes through the window and unhappiness and fear installed in its place -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver. -- Sharon Olds
I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks? -- Jandy Nelson
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. -- Gautama Buddha
No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope. -- Simone Weil
Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you. -- Issey Miyake
A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance. -- Henri Poincare
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. -- Rose Wilder Lane
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence. -- Wyndham Lewis
They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism. -- Nhat Hanh
It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge. -- Margaret Atwood
It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with. -- Thomas Carlyle
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all. -- H. L. Mencken
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California. -- Ernest Gaines
Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast. -- Henry David Thoreau
Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way. -- Michael Crichton
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach. -- Max Lucado
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity. -- Blaise Pascal
For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Whoever, within his own soul and in human relations, escapes the dominion of force is loved but loved sorrowfully because of the threat of destruction that constantly hangs over him. -- Simone Weil
No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning. -- Patrick Ness
I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes -- Rawi Hage
If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality. -- Luc Delahaye
The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure. -- Euripides
Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. -- Patrick Ness
It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private. -- Michel Foucault
The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate. -- Willa Cather
The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways. -- Alberto Giacometti
Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training." "Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training. -- Richelle Mead
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. -- Slavoj Zizek
If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God. -- Yasmin Mogahed
The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me. -- J. K. Rowling
We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly humble person escapes notice: the world does not know him. -- Tito Colliander
Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands. -- Elisabeth Elliot
The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes. -- Samuel Johnson
Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes. -- Jacques Derrida
I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp. -- Jenny Downham
My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime. -- Takashi Murakami
All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes. -- Camille Paglia
Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those that are the most at its mercy; the Animals. -- Milan Kundera

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