By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.
God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.
Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.
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.
When she wanted to escape her life, she read books
The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!
When you're filming in Russia in Catherine's Palace, and you're in the real place where the Tsar's ball really happened, all those years ago, it does so much of the work for you. It's so vivid. You escape into this different time through the costumes, the sets and the atmosphere.
Attachment has to do with suffering, so it's really close to Buddhism, because Buddhism wants to relieve you from suffering; you're supposed to escape from suffering.
He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
I like what I read, I find it intellectually engaging and I don't really have that much time, so I gotta make every bit count. I read magazines and stuff like that, but if I'm going to read a book, I want to come out smarter. It's not to escape, it's to learn.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.
Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.