Escaping Quotes - Page 5

• Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Girl, Reading, Stories

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• [Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

  Larry Wall

  Moving, People, Community

  "The State of the Onion". www.perl.com. August 19, 2004.

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• There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Income, Taxation, Facts

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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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• Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

  S. N. Goenka

  Art, Vipassana, Art Of Living

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• There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

  Tacitus

  Brave, Trouble, Fortune

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• The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.

  Alfred Sheinwold

  Real, Player, Bridges

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• I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't misunderstand my statement. What is, is good. Nothing will happen either by dropping things and escaping from them or by clinging to them. Remain where you are, but begin the search within. Much outer searching has already been done, now go within. Now know the one, in this knowing one attains all. All desires are at once fulfilled.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Home, Knowing

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• But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.

  John Constable

  Sheep, Water, Long

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• The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.

  Fábio Moon

  Wind, Waiting, Looks

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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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• The mighty hunter," I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. "He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror.""One scary old lady," he corrected me, looking relieved to be out of the house. "You didn't hear what she told me when I got up - you're so cute I could put you in a pie. Tell me that's not the creepiest thing you've ever heard." His voice climbed a few octaves, turning shrill and breathy. "Today for dessert, we have apple pie, blueberry pie and Ezekiel pie.

  Julie Kagawa

  Cute, Voice, Apples

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• Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel, you'll find less inconvenience along the way." "It's because of their guns!" declared Mr. Henderson, once more escaping his reverie, bobbing out of it as if to gasp for air. "Concise, my love." Mrs. Henderson gave him a smile. "And correct. Texans are heavily armed and often impatient. They don't need to be transporting arms and gunpowder to create a great nuisance for anyone who stops them, so they tend to be stopped...less often.

  Cherie Priest

  Gun, Air, Texas

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Dreadnought”, p.134, Pan Macmillan

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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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• 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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• All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

  E. B. White

  Communication, Writing, Self

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get freaked out by them: mostly the people who believe, mistakenly, that fantasy is about escaping reality. To them I say: If you have a problem with reality, you should be spending more time dealing with your life, and less time reading popcorn fantasy.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

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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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• To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Real, Mean, Plot

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.

  Connie Brockway

  Running, Long, Dozen

  Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept

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• We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.

  Umberto Eco

  Want, Way, Limits

  "'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

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• I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to.  But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ.  I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him.  But if He does not, I shall not.  Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it.  And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spring, Fall, Fighting

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life

  Dainin Katagiri

  Spiritual, Pain, Suffering

  Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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