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