Quotes by Escaping He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him. Abraham Verghese escaping climbing house No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart Adam Lambert escaping heart I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die. Adrian Grenier escaping twins new-york When my dreams showed signs Adrienne Rich escaping political dream 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 escaping humanity love-is I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening. Al Pacino escaping coping way The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate. Alan Dershowitz escaping united-states important 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 escaping who-i-am play The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it. Albert Camus escaping majority men And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live. Alejandro Jodorowsky escaping cities rivers The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it. Alexis de Tocqueville escaping evil ideas The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in. Alfred Sheinwold escaping real player 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 escaping hopeful feel-good 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 escaping fighting civilization 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 escaping morning people A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the deadly cold, the frozen vacuum of an ice age, life reduced to mineral crystals. [. . .] I drove at great speed, as if escaping, pretending we could escape. Although I knew there was no escape from the ice, from the ever-diminishing remnant of time that encapsuled us. Anna Kavan escaping ice age Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison. Anton Chekhov escaping useless prison My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping. Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook escaping practice art Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. Athanasius of Alexandria escaping kingdoms heaven 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 escaping real happiness 12345678910»