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A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape? -- Marilyn French
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from. -- David Lloyd
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. -- J. Donald Walters
As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax. -- Christine Lagarde
If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy. -- Simon Van Booy
A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed. -- Victor Hugo
Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money". -- Silvio Berlusconi
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape. -- Peter HÃ¸eg
Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape. -- Vimala McClure
I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same. -- Terry Gilliam
That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it? -- John Green
You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought. -- Enid Blyton
The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too. -- Anthony Horowitz
Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one. -- Gayle Forman
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. -- J. Donald Walters
I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario. -- Lykke Li
There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you?It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it. -- John Boyne
The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
My heart"¦ It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you. -- Neil Gaiman
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention. -- Charles Guggenheim
It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in. -- Amin Maalouf
Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to escape from the blue painted wall. -- Jay Woodman
With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom. -- Erma Bombeck
Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off. -- Don Tapscott
Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all. -- Stephen Hawking
Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds. -- Anthony Liccione
This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape. -- Frederick Leboyer
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. -- Hannah Arendt
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. -- Jack Henry Abbott
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. -- Victor Hugo
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture. -- Eduardo Galeano
I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life. -- Andrea Corr
I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society. -- Peter Thiel
I think a lot of kids I've met in L.A. trying to act want to escape working long days and think acting is all photoshoots and red carpets. -- Kiersey Clemons
I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape. -- Hill Harper
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself. -- Mary Karr
I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically. -- Lyle Kessler
No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers. -- Ravi Zacharias
If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart. -- Louise Brooks
We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going. -- Ace Antonio Hall
Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence. -- Josef Pieper

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