Escaped Quotes

256 quotes by 214 authors

He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the… — Otto von Bismarck
Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure,… — Thom Yorke
I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans. — Thom Yorke
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped,… — Larry Niven
What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us. — Heraclitus
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because… — Samuel Johnson
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. — Colleen McCullough
Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the… — John Roberts
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still… — Plato
Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp… — Blaise Cendrars
When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the… — Sharon Olds
I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression,… — Assata Shakur
All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's… — Jean Baudrillard
In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians. — James R Newman
The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking… — P.J. O'Rourke
There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God. — Bill Hybels
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… — Edward Carpenter
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series. — James Belushi
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

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