(252 quotes found)
“When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope”
Henri Nouwen
“The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.”
Harry Houdini
“What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?”
Chanakya
“Do you call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling idea, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. . . . Free from what? Zarathustra does not care about that! But your eye should clearly tell me: free for what?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is an unborn, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. There cannot be any escape from what is born, become compounded. But since there is this unborn, not become, not-made, not-compounded, therefore is there made known an escape from what i”
Buddha
“The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.”
Dr. Robert Anthony
“Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was, that they escaped teething”
Mark Twain
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”
Shirley Chisholm
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”
William Blackstone
“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”
Clare Boothe Luce
