#escape

She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it. ↗

— C.M. Stunich

#confinement #confusion #decisions #escape #fears

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass. ↗

— Edward Norton

#always #any #door #enjoy #escape

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#believes #built #church #conquered #death

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desire #escape #far #greater #intercourse

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained. ↗

— William Scranton

#conference #contained #down #escaped #had

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#arrest #because #berlin #burning #catch

I write to escape; to escape poverty. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#i #i write #poverty #write

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#difficult times #escaped #i #life #most

Then sudden Felagund there swaying Sang in answer a song of staying, Resisting, battling against power, Of secrets kept, strength like a tower, And trust unbroken, freedom, escape; Of changing and of shifting shape, Of snares eluded, broken traps, The prison opening, the chain that snaps. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#freedom #magic #power #change

Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light. ↗

— Lee Argus

#darkness #death #lee-argus #life #metaphor