Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. Henry Ward Beecher American Clergyman More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes 55
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius Roman Emperor More Marcus Aurelius Quotes 6
The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin. Harry Houdini More Harry Houdini Quotes 3
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. Horace Roman Poet More Horace Quotes 3
With cyber bullying, you can't escape from it. Fifty-four percent of the kids who were bullied said they didn't know who was bullying them on the Internet. Robin Kowalski More Robin Kowalski Quotes 2
Netball is an outlet - an escape from the humdrum. There's nothing gives me such a kick. Well, nothing except vodka. Angela Farley More Angela Farley Quotes 2
Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? Geraldine Chaplin American Actress More Geraldine Chaplin Quotes 2
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 2
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work. Tanith Lee British Writer More Tanith Lee Quotes 1
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. Voltaire French Writer More Voltaire Quotes 1
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln American President More Abraham Lincoln Quotes 1
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. Albert Camus French Philosopher More Albert Camus Quotes 1
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 1
The stories were so sad, terrifying and tragic: A Thai woman who had helped us escape had turned around to get her children, but they had been swept out to sea; an American-Irish couple who had spent the past 15 years of their lives on their sailboat had watched their boat and all their belongings get smashed. Stephanie Cox More Stephanie Cox Quotes 1
The desire to escape normal life and do something different that engages the mind, body and spirit is in all of us. Clare Jones More Clare Jones Quotes 1
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book. Cynthia Heimel More Cynthia Heimel Quotes 0
While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. Cyril Connolly English More Cyril Connolly Quotes 0
Nobody's plotting to escape the accountability; they're just trying to help students get a fair chance. These are not malicious errors. Dan Clark More Dan Clark Quotes 0
The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king. David McCord American Poet More David McCord Quotes 0
Multiple hours a day on any of those activities decelerates communication with the family unit and can foster an escape from reality that, in time, becomes unhealthy. Dave Stone More Dave Stone Quotes 0
Anybody who plays jazz can't escape the shadow of John Coltrane. We've been playing various arrangements of Coltrane's music since the beginning, but we really wanted to get deeply into what is probably his most famous recording. David Balakrishnan More David Balakrishnan Quotes 0
You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit. David Ryan More David Ryan Quotes 0
As we look across the region, we have earthquake activity distributed throughout the entire bay area. There's really no escape. David Schwartz More David Schwartz Quotes 0
The Bush administration since 9/11 has been again and again fighting to escape gravity, fighting to escape the weight of the way things have always been done. Things are now coming to a decision point, and we'll know soon. David Frum More David Frum Quotes 0
Rural experiences are a key part of the therapy people need as an urban escape. They want to take their kids to see goats and llamas. They themselves went to go out and learn to weave wool or pick vegetables or fruit. That's where the guides and maps come in. Desmond Jolly More Desmond Jolly Quotes 0