How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

I knew however that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away and I did just in time for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

And at ten or whatever time in the morning we had the press conference what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island that it was shut down that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

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

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

Antiquities are history defaced or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

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.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country he would have escaped.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

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