I escaped a North Korean prison camp
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.
I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.
I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.
We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U. S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.
Hope. . . which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.
The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.
Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.
