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We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.
I think people come home, and they turn on the TV and don't necessarily want a mirror in their face. They want to escape.
Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.
No politician can expect to escape criticism for a controversial decision and we have to be robust in justifying what we do.
Movies were, to me, like a way out. It was an escape valve. I remember having my parents drop me off at movies all the time.
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.
There's no reason to think a Guantanamo detainee is any more likely to escape from Supermax than any other federal prisoner.
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.
No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
Blue Origin's successful capsule escape demonstration represents a material step toward a fully re-usable sub-orbital vehicle.
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
I experienced bullying as early as the first day of kindergarten and there were times where I wish could escape out of my body.
Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme poverty.
As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
Stress impacts the way we think, feel, and behave. It often leads to a negative, self-perpetuating cycle that is hard to escape.
For people to escape poverty for good, we need better policies that support work, strengthen families, and move America forward.
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.
I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'
Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen.
Ultimately, the idea of being able to escape and lose myself in a new world every time I go to 'work' was too appealing to ignore.
Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.
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.
Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.
Few escape our most deprived estates. Few young people with potential escape difficult upbringings. Fewer cross the social divides.
I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.
This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.
We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.