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For when the cycle of violence escapes its confines in hell, it causes earthquakes, floods, and other calamities.
— Yangsze Choo
Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
— Joshua Slocum
No one escapes this life without scars ... not even God.
— Michelle Griep
No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.
— Nicholas Brendon
The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.
— George Edward Woodberry
There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
— Norton Juster
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
— Rose Wilder Lane
He wanted to flee in shame, to the kitchenette, to the next room, to the fire escapes and rooftops and the places where the city ended.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it.
— Leigh Bardugo
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
— John Steinbeck
There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.
— Propertius
Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.
— Michael Leunig
A little recognition of the escapes we made, of the finish line we crossed, only to find so many other finish lines waiting after it.
— David Levithan
Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
— William Cowper
If this chance escapes, it will never come back
— Anamika Mishra
Reality escapes us. It's beyond description, even a simple pear. Time eats everything.
— Yann Martel
Children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.
— Fanny Kemble
There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.
— Jennifer James
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.
— Lynn Margulis
The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.
— Steven Sinofsky
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
— Salman Rushdie
The reality of the moment is so palpable and powerful that it holds imagination in a tight orbit from which it never fully escapes.
— Daniel M. Gilbert
When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.
— Sharon Olds
A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.
— Henri Poincare
Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.
— Yisroel Salanter
Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.
— Confucius
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
— Annie Dillard
In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of them.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.
— Robert Breault
If poetry escapes my mouth then it shall seek comfort in your heart. Will you keep it safe?
— Delano Johnson
The pace of growth goes on increasing and in the end it escapes our control.
— David Lagercrantz
No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
We create beautiful and lasting things, build vast civilizations." "Gorgeous evasions," he said. "Great escapes.
— Don DeLillo
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
— Gautama Buddha
Nothing great or small escapes the ordaining hand of Him who numbers the hairs of our head.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest
— Aleister Crowley
People have found her somber, but it is sometimes because her humor is so deadpan dry that it escapes many.
— Irin Carmon
I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
— Jandy Nelson
Everyone runs, one escapes and one survives after all.
— Deyth Banger
I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.
— Alexander Siddig
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
— Ernest Renan
Things happen. To everyone. No one escapes.
— Sarah Winman
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Life really just barely escapes me though the certainty comes to me that life is other and has a hidden style
— Clarice Lispector
What escapes categorization can escape detection altogether
— Rebecca Solnit
A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
— Edgard Varese
The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.
— Leonid Shamkovich
He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned ghosts.
— John Steinbeck
Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
— A.J.P. Taylor
The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see.
— Ben Midland
Love is like life; when you stop to think about it and analyse the parts that make it, the genie escapes from the bottle
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
For rarely man escapes his destiny.
— Ludovico Ariosto
No earthly act escapes its eternal echoes, echoes more substantial than the acts themselves.
— Geoffrey Wood
We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.
— Issey Miyake
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
— Thomas Carlyle
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
— Henry David Thoreau
Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.
— Julia Ward Howe
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.
— George Herbert
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.
— Julian Barnes
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.
— Blaise Pascal
When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one escapes from life alive.
— Michael Crichton
The disaster ... is what escapes the very possibility of experience - it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.
— Maurice Blanchot
It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
— Thomas Carlyle
A deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.
— Regina Maria Roche
Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.
— Joseph Alexandre Pierre De Segur, Viscount Of Segur