#escape

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

— Thomas Brooks

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In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#analysis #believe #breach #cannot #continue

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#escape #everything #i #i do #i think

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#cannot #community #escape #furthermore #heaven

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

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The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#escape #family #hearts #innermost #never

There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful eyes, and as she watched she dreamed that some day one of these distant sails should bear down towards her, and one should come, in whose hand she would lay her own, and they two would flee to the far East. But as the changeless years went by and brought him not, the girl grew sullen, and a sense of wrong possessed her, for the older she grew, the clearer became her consciousness of a world beyond her, and the greater her longing to seek it. ("The Serpent's Head") ↗

— Emilia Francis Strong Dilke

#maturity #romance #dreams

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

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