#cape

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate. ↗

— Karl Barth

#certainly #change #escape #eternal #eternal love

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#alienation #day #escape #left #only

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. ↗

— Shania Twain

#great #high #music #natural

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#anybody #because #escape #face #felt

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#forces #landscape #me #nature #visual

I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#cape #deal #drawers #get #go

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!" ↗

— Bill Bradley

#cannot #common #enables #escape #imagination

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. ↗

— John Lancaster Spalding

#cannot #driven #escape #hell #may

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. ↗

— Ken Burns

#becomes #careful #complexity #composition #drama

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#been #escaped #fortune #fortunes #great