#escape

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#corps #developed #escape #fully #join

She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago. ↗

— Connie Brockway

#escape #freedom #running #freedom

That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#jennifer-l-armentrout #onyx #funny

Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps it is more wonderful still when our landing at the waking-point is abrupt and the thoughts of our sleep, hidden by a cloak of oblivion, have no time to return to us gradually, before sleep ceases. Then, from the black storm through which we seem to have passed (but we do not even say we), we emerge prostrate, without a thought, a we that is void of content. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#renewal #self #void #life

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. ↗

— George Eliot

#desire #effort #escape #evil #except

But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#escape #free #lucas #stargazer #love

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so. ↗

— Louise Brown

#child #children #escape #found #had

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#dawn #dead #difficult #escape #film

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus. ↗

— Hesiod

#escape #mind #possible #trick #zeus

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#book #books #could #disappear #escape