#escape

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#church #escape #accomplishments

We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league. ↗

— Relient K

#god-s-grace #grace #lyrics #relient-k #songs

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

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

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

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#badly #came #course #escape #give

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. ↗

— John Calvin

#even #freedom #god #ignorance #inadvertently

I don't ever feel the need to escape. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#ever #feel #i #need

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#escape #eyes #gate #secret #war

But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair ↗

— Relient K

#beauty