#escape

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered. ↗

— Philip Hone

#country #escape #first #homes #occasion

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#best #best time #conscience #degeneration #escape

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

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

— Adam Baldwin

#drama #escape #grade #i #involved

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#because #control #create #escape #got

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#circumstances #escape #especially #our #want

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#day #enough #escape #excuse #get

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

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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