#cape

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. ↗

— Frederick The Great

#escape #know #made #man #me

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#develop #did #escape #fact #harsh

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. ↗

— Graham Greene

#escape #fear #form #how #human

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#bands #because #escape #go #interested

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else. ↗

— John Grisham

#bad #death #death penalty #else #escape

I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years. ↗

— David Guterson

#basin #columbia #doors #entire #feeling

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#another #consider #entertainment #escape #form

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#escape #every #find #learn #life

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#art form #because #cinema #clear #difficult