#escape

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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

— Adam Baldwin

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However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end. ↗

— Rachel Ward

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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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

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

— Roland Barthes

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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

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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

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Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

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