Top 399 Escaped Quotes & Sayings

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care?

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 own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statutes the next.

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.

[M*A*S*H] didn't get released by FOX, it escaped.

The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.

In North Korea, it was actually an oppressive regime and that's why I escaped with my life.

The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

I escaped a North Korean prison camp

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

When the terrible accident occurred, at least I escaped with my life. I was the lucky one, that was my reaction.

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

I did everything I can to be free and escaped.

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

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

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 capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.

I grew up knowing about [Ted] Bundy because I grew up in Aspen and that is one of the places he kept escaping from. I remember one of the times he had escaped the Pitkin County Jail, my stepfather sat outside with a shotgun because everyone knew Bundy had escaped and so everybody was on alert.

I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.

We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

I've been very blessed, and that has not escaped me.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

No one has ever escaped from Guantanamo Bay. It is by far the most secure detention facility in the world.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

Woman, I’m trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention?

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

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

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

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

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

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't.

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

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

It has not escaped us that other competitors have also identified health as an attractive marketplace.

Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."

Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by our own ideas? I doubt if there exists today a more complete regimentation of the human mind than that accomplished by our self-imposed doctrine of ruthless utilitarianism.

I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia.

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped.

When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.