Escaped Quotes
256 quotes by 218 authors
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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
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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
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All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.
— David Starr Jordan
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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
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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
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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
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Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
— Seneca the Younger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Escaped Quotes
218 authors contributed a total of 256 Escaped Quotes, led by these top contributors: