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  • Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have been shaped by a multitude of technologies. And there is no escaping the pervasive ecological effects.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the deadly cold, the frozen vacuum of an ice age, life reduced to mineral crystals. [. . .] I drove at great speed, as if escaping, pretending we could escape. Although I knew there was no escape from the ice, from the ever-diminishing remnant of time that encapsuled us.

    Escaping   Ice   Age  
  • So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn There's vultures and thieves at your back The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies That you make up for all that you lack. It don't make no difference, escaping one last time It's easier to believe In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness That brings me to my knees.

    Song   Sweet   Lying  
  • Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.

    Running   Distance   Rain  
    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 21, 2016
  • When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

  • Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

    Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.102, Faber & Faber
  • [N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

    Running   War   Fall  
  • I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him. But if He does not, I shall not. Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it. And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.

    Spring   Fall   Fighting  
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group
  • Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

    James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS
  • But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

    Edward Gibbon (1869). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.318
  • To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

    "Smashing Pumpkins". Book by Jim Stapleton, 1996.
  • I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in the local paper, they were having auditions for a play of a book I had read. Which was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. So I said, "oh, I've read this, so I'm perfect for the part of the lead." His name is escaping me.

    Book   Escaping   Play  
    Source: collider.com
  • The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.61, Penguin
  • If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!

    John G. Lake (2009). “John G. Lake On Healing”, p.61, Whitaker House
  • My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.

    Dream   Teacher   Art  
    Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.109, Penguin
  • Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

    Trust   Taken   Escaping  
  • And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on of their birth. ... Not political refugees, escaping a repressing regime, nor economic refugees, crossing a border in search of a better-paying job. The are hedonic refugees, moving to a new land, a new culture, because they are happier there. Usually hedonic refugees have an ephiphany, a moment of great clarity when they realize, beyond a doubt, that they were born in the wrong country.

    Country   Jobs   Moving  
  • Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

    Drama   Escaping   Limits  
    Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.143, Penguin
  • If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. When you stop being like other people, they stop liking you. That's just how it goes. There's no escaping it. And it's okay. What you need to understand about that disapproval is that it's a sign you're doing something right.

    Escaping   People   Needs  
    Darren Hardy (2015). “The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride”, p.57, Greenleaf Book Group
  • Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.

    Escaping   Doe   Window  
  • The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

    Men   Escaping   Majority  
    "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.
  • Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature,--may almost say, "I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now.

    Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.145
  • The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

    Past   Escaping  
    Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.131, Random House
  • sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

    Hurt   Escaping   Skins  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.214, Scholastic Inc.
  • You can't view inflation as a perception issue. Price rise should be seen as a reality. What is available for a consumer should be seen for what it is. There should never be an attempt to view price rise as a perception issue as a means of escaping the reality of price rise.

    Mean   Reality   Escaping  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.in
  • 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.

    Men   Escaping   Ink  
    James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.44, Wildside Press LLC
  • Just because of [Albert Camus] way of sensing before thinking. He's in a field that he often feels like escaping from. In any case, you have to learn what blood is. It all has to be rationalised. In that he feels exiled, solitary.

    Source: www.spikemagazine.com
  • When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

  • There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.

    "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.
  • You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.

    Race   Escaping   Years  
    Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.225, Random House
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