Escaped Quotes

Just give us until Rome."
The tears escaped.
"Just give us until Rome, Melanie. — T.M. Williams

A sinister giggle escaped my lips. I'm not much of a giggler unless I've done something sinister. — Penny Reid

for decades doctors never suspected that this "useless" tissue might actually have a use that escaped their detection. The — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. — George Orwell

16 February. Can't see my way clear. As though everything I possessed had escaped me, and as though it would hardly satisfy me if it all returned. — Franz Kafka

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

All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society's institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions. — Michael Connelly

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

Luckily, the forest was so dense that the two escaped without injury, though one of the men peed in his pants. — Liu Cixin

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

To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens. — Lisa See

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped. — Rodney Dangerfield

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped
not with wealth or by war,
not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship. — Sophocles

It may be small comfort, but I believe Rafe doesn't want to kill you."
A light laugh escaped her lips. "Actually, that is a substantial comfort. — Brooklyn Ann

When we're lost in thought, when we're dreaming, what have we lost? We've lost reality. Our life has escaped us. — Charlotte Joko Beck

I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan. — Andrew Cherng

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better. — Nicholas Sparks

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

It hasn't escaped me that the object that keeps me alive is the same one that will kill me. In this way it's like love, or a certain kind of it. — Margaret Atwood

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

Joe had run away, escaped without a trace, and come here to hide. But now he was ready to come home. The problem was that he didn't know how to do it. — Michael Chabon

She wondered where he escaped from, how bad it was, and how far he traveled before he put it behind him. — Colson Whitehead

One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion) — George R R Martin

Fenris lunged at my face. I cleverly escaped by falling on my butt. — Rick Riordan

Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best. — Conan O'Brien

As long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers. — Thomas Pynchon

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. — Alberto Manguel

Social scientists are not universally liked or appreciated, but we are still marginally more acceptable than alcoholics and escaped lunatics. — Kate Fox

Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped. — Vladimir Voinovich

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series. — James Belushi

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

Against my mouth she groaned. "I hate being quiet."
A breathless chuckled escaped me.
"Me too. Once we're home ... "
"Lots of noise. — Lisa Kessler

Husbands were all too often the back door by which secrets escaped into the outside world. — Stephen King

Whatever view one takes of the outcome being affected by morale, it seems certain that the realm of illusion must be escaped before anything else. — Christopher Hitchens

Julesa: "Are you a fool? Father will have you hung if he realises you've escaped."
Never: "Everyone dies from something. — Ashley Capes

The escaped polar bear owned Central Park. Until we killed it. — Chris Weitz

But he never forgot how once by not knowing time,
He escaped into the clockless land of ever,
Where time hides tick-less waiting to be born. — U.A. Fanthorpe

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

A cry of despair escaped her lips. When had she fallen in love with him? — Kiki Hamilton

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

Not a single person has ever escaped?"
"Only if you count death as an escape. — Aria Kane

A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on his way to a gay pride parade. — Jimmy Fallon

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work. — Kirsten Prout

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped! — Gary Paulsen

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

If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car. — Sunday Adelaja

Harley's eyes widened in horror, and a low moan of fear escaped his mouth. The back alley was filled with a vision from Hell. — Alan Kinross

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

Calvin argues that a sense of the divine is planted by God in human nature and cannot be escaped. — W. Robert Godfrey

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home. — Bella Heathcote

Mother says,
People share
when they know they have escaped hunger.
Shouldn't people share
because there is hunger? — Thanhha Lai

If you cannot be thankful for what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

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

The woman who had escaped with her life now wept for the loss of her umbrella and was not at all grateful that her limbs were intact. — Joseph Roth

I wondered if there were ever times when Dad didn't sound like he escaped from a Jane Austen novel. — Rachel Hawkins

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

It hadn't escaped her notice that when she let him believe the worst of her, still he vowed to stand beside her and work toward forgiveness. — Elizabeth Camden

None of us have escaped being both good and evil, sometimes simultaneously. — Jessica Dotta

That life can't be escaped and must be faced entirely. — Richard Ford

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

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

the dark eyes were so fixed to the world that no move escaped them. — Anonymous

It gives you the impression of an escaped lunatic's conversation while chasing his hat on a windy day. — W.H. Lewis

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Escaped at last into a world of pure illusion in which, safe from any harm, she moved, lived, from attitude to attitude — William Faulkner

Mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The programmes — George Orwell

It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.
And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always. — Elizabeth Lowell

I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had chased me here. — Alexandra Bracken

found out about your dad?' 'Then I escaped. I wanted to tell — J.S. Monroe

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain

I smiled at his hair. It was standing out all over the place, wherever it had escaped the elastic bands holding the mask on. "Take — Elle Casey

Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive. — Jane Yolen

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it. — George Gissing

In an infinite universe, there were too many things that escaped human understanding. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

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

99 percent of every beautiful thing you ever knew escaped and went back out into the world where you vaguely remembered it. — Ron Padgett

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

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. — Wilfred Owen

I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes ... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans. — Thom Yorke

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

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

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

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

I wish I'd been born in another time, another place. Then maybe I could've escaped fate ... maybe I could've been your darling. — Nalini Singh

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

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped. — Adam Gopnik

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. — Camille Paglia

We will bring your guilt as well. You wouldn't have escaped it anyway. It is a parent's gift. — Christopher Moore

She was a book worm she escaped her life and became her novels. — Tina J. Richardson

And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him — Isabel Allende

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

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it? — Edward St. Aubyn

Corset,' Mrs. Erskine? I don't understand." Because she was trussed up in one herself, she couldn't comprehend how Ariah had escaped hers. — Joyce Carol Oates

But we escaped into a stillness within ourselves. We found strenght there. — Ruta Sepetys

Nay, the guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he comes back in by the door. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped. — Jeanette Winterson