Escaped Quotes

256 quotes by 218 authors

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
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was… — Jacques Charles
All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor. — David Starr Jordan
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
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. — Samuel Johnson
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make… — George Orwell
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear. — Seneca the Younger
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. — Francis Crick
A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be befooled by others."… — Rajneesh
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. — Henri Frederic Amiel
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other… — Walter Raleigh
They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection. — John Szarkowski
If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when… — Oswald Chambers
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their… — Alexander Hamilton
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. — James Madison
I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped. — Rodney Dangerfield
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
Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the… — George W. Bush
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of… — George Washington
Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered… — Samuel Johnson

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