Escaped Quotes

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Best

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Life, Through, Sand

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel

Future, Taken, Elegance

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul

Life, Through, Sand

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

Life, Success, Enough

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon

Time, History, Casually

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson

Calamity, Remembered, Suffered

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Small, Danger

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht

Best, Fun, Yourself

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.
Evel Knievel

Two, Days, Center

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
Danny Boyle

Art, Through, Often

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.
Evan Davis

Light, Big, Last

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
Bob Woodward

Failure, Country, Understand

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
Joan D. Vinge

Through, Perfect, Here

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.
Klaus Kinski

Heart, Try, Cannot

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
Elinor Wylie

Smile, Fear, Single

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.
Anna Paquin

Mean, Along, Bumps

They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.
Hugh Shelton

Wrong, Direction, Whether

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.
William Scranton

Time, Morning, Down

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
Barbara Amiel

Attention, Aim, Perhaps

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
Jack Henry Abbott

Time, Free, Six

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
Manfred von Richthofen

Time, Experience, Today

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
Victoria Woodhull

Women, Cannot, Common

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.
Brian Bosworth

Football, Thinking, Sometimes

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
Nadia Comaneci

Life, Difficult, Times

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.
Ann Wilson

Love, Time, Men

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
Gerard Arpey

Business, Decisions, Year

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.
Klaus Fuchs

Home, Morning, Why

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.
Lorene Scafaria

Home, Old, Dream

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.
Edward Carpenter

Friend, Real, Self

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