#escape

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#apart #believe #certain #decree #determination

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#escape #free #freedom #movement #respects

Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii. ↗

— Gellu Naum

#escape-from-reality #heroism #insanity #psychosis #dreams

The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#army #called #crime #desert #escape

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ↗

— George William Curtis

#always #conversation #escapes #ghost #interview

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#doctor-watson #escape #late-visit #scrambling #sherlock-holmes

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#escape #eve #humor #paradise #sarcasm

Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#fear #hurting #ink-exchange #pain #change

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

#bad #better #definition #escape #good

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#addicted #addictions #avoiding #basis #become