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For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.
When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state
She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!
Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.
The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.
The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.
I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.
A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder
If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.
Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.
There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.
People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations.
Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.
Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
It's a circus life, the movies. It's a lot of travelling, a lot of antisocial hours; there's a lot of it that's about escaping from life.
If you're drunk please don't drive. If you're on shrooms please don't think Walmart's a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping.
The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.
No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.
We all want to be carried away to a whole other world and have romantic tendencies about escaping to an exotic place and being swept off our feet.
I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change