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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Horace Mann

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Hannah Arendt

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Chinese Proverb

No one should be able to escape justice by not turning up when they're supposed to.

Lord Falconer

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

Wendell Berry

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Ram Dass

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Frank Herbert

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Brooks Atkinson

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Eric Hoffer

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

Adam Baldwin

Some pedophiles mistakenly believe they can escape detection and prosecution by committing child sex crimes overseas.

Charles Demore

No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.

George Eliot

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

Pete Domenici

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

He (the victim) tried to escape twice, twice he was brought back.

Lt. Chis Burchell

Fortunately, a passer-by helped a woman escape.

Jessica D'onofrio

It was coincidental that the city sent me notification that the fire escape wasn't safe and they had to do something about it.

Dwight Miller

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality.

Michael Crichton

I get to know them so well. They ask, 'where have you been kayaking?' ... It's an escape for them.

Lindsay Burrows

He could not escape and was badly beaten till he lost his consciousness.

George Ninan

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

It's a psychological escape. When the kids come here, they get to be kids again.

Trazanna Moreno

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Alan Saporta

That was Jeff's escape. But without Shane . . .

Gary Carter

It is clear that the father was trying to get them out, ... Everyone was attempting to escape.

Glenn Williams

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Paul Eldridge

For some of the prisoners, art is a way for them to escape. Art is as varied and complicated as the human condition.

Stephen Hartnett

They don't have a boat or any other way to escape.

Beth Mccartney

One man did escape without injuries. He described it as very sudden, that he was unconscious briefly, but he was able to escape. All of his colleagues are in hospital.

Sarah Galashan

If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.

Dr. R. W. Shepherd

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

I never wished to have to escape from my own land.

Arturo Sandoval

The judge was pretty clear he wasn't looking for an escape valve. He was looking for action.

Jeanine L'ecuyer

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?

Mark Twain

We want people to come into this room, into the auditorium, and we want them to escape and forget it's 2006.

Herb Stratford

It's one of those things, you can't escape it. You set your own boundaries and you say as much as you want to say and the rest you keep private -- that's the only thing you can really do.

Natalie Imbruglia

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

The noise doesn't escape there. It hits that roof and comes right back at you.

Frank Maloney

This is a place to escape. You're escaping the everyday rigors of life.

Matthew Lee

The cell bar looked too inviting. One escape attempt is too many.

Warden Ramon Rustin

The deputy ... said ... 'You're surrounded, your attempts to escape have come to an end, there's nowhere to go and we want this to go peacefully,'.

John Bolen

There is too much drama in real life, so this is a bit of an escape.

Bill Hewitt

The contract with Jenson, which I would not want to discuss openly, does not have an engine escape clause.

Frank Williams

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.

Dr. Robert Anthony

He called me on the phone from Holland. He said he was in Istanbul a few days earlier but managed to escape.

Osman Karahan

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Thomas Brooks

It's an escape from the everyday. It's also a way to connect with society.

Charlie Watts

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The message from this study is that there is no easy escape from this acoustic snooping.

Doug Tygar

The only thing that I can say is that she was on the track when the train blew his whistle. It is now the time for us to determine if she had time to escape or not, to get away from the train.

Michel Mercier

Conflicted by her conscience but still unable to escape.

Karla Homolka

It's just an easy escape.

Polly Ringler

It gets expensive. But we thank God he has allowed us to escape with our lives.

John Holmes

We're not doing it to escape anything. We're doing it to help kids.

Frank Roder

We didn't know about her trying to escape until after court, ... Now she faces two more charges.

Peggy Smith

As we look across the region, we have earthquake activity distributed throughout the entire bay area. There's really no escape.

David Schwartz

Escape, indulge, interact and play.

Peter Finamore

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

John Ciardi

They go to the movies to escape their houses, ... and they like to escape their healthy diets too.

John Fithian

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Lucius Accius

We always escape with a victory. But it's just always been tough to go over there.

Armando Padilla

. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

Fanny Burney

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

He was just beginning to find his vocation and to escape from the orbit of his father.

Lance Morrow

When people are on top of each other, they have to find a way to escape. Music is a way to escape.

John Turturro

Being chased and how to escape is one way to think about it.

Ryan Ford

Obviously we would have preferred the escape not to have occurred.

Alberto R. Gonzales

You have thousands of people who are in their vehicles trying to escape.

Don Peritz

To a warden, Utopia is an escape-proof jail.

Gregory Nunn

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

Nellie Melba

It's the proverbial blessing and curse. It's a blessing because it liberates you from the office. It's a curse because there's no escape.

Douglas M. Steenland

Their escape cannot be considered an internal problem for Yemen alone.

Ronald Noble

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Ellis Peters

I know she was not able to escape when she was up in the hills.

Elizabeth Smart

This is a place where I can escape to fantasyland.

Elaine Vogel

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

Edgar Rice Burroughs