We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence but we cling desperately to our chains.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

We have need of history in its entirety not to fall back into it but to see if we can escape from it.

In this world without quiet corners there can be no easy escapes from history from hullabaloo from terrible unquiet fuss.

Antiquities are history defaced or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

When I was a little kid all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your thoughts your vision your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Also when you escape a Communist regime you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand liberty must contract.

In other words a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous stupid and cruel life.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

In the free/libre software movement we develop software that respects users' freedom so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

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.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people that steal or are corrupt that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people or where warranted the reach of international law.

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security comfort. It brings you home.

Gluttony is an emotional escape a sign something is eating us.

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear And none has quite escaped my smile.