Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gay

Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

Koizumi's victory triggered a rally in stocks and fueled optimism about an escape from deflation.

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

That was big time. In that situation, I would have been happy to escape with two runs scored. That play held them to one and more importantly, it kept the momentum on our side.

It escapes all logic. We aren't able to understand all things. It is a matter of faith ... to trust that God is in control.

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

Kathleen Blanco

I can't feel we escaped the worst, because we don't know what the worst is.

I wrestled the exact way that I wanted to wrestle (in the semifinals). I was hoping to get an escape there in the second period but I just didn't get it done when I needed to.

I think it all comes down to fundamentals. This is not a time to start forgetting things. It will be a matter of inches and seconds that will win the championship. You work hard all year to get to this point, and you have to be able to sustain. You can only escape for so long.

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

Rita Ora

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

His past is his past. You can't escape that. Go out and speak to him, hopefully get the reports and make sure that the system treats him just like any other defendants -- fairly.

His past is his past. He can't escape that.

His name was Wells Crowther. He actually escaped but then went back in and pulled 10 other people out. I'm wearing it in his memory.

Lorene Scafaria

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

I get to know them so well. They ask, 'where have you been kayaking?' ... It's an escape for them.

He was losing 2-1 in the third round and got an escape with about 15 seconds left in the match and then took him down. But that didn't matter because we needed a pin to win the match. He got him on his back and pinned him with about four seconds left.

If we don't start playing like an experienced team, this year will escape us, without us doing what we want to do.

If I tried to escape or did anything wrong, they would have killed me and harvested my organs.

He was trying to escape to Pakistan when our men nabbed him.

Joe Allen

We can just put the old fire escapes in Jack's parking space,

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

Alberto Gonzales

Obviously we would have preferred the escape not to have occurred,

No one should be able to escape justice by not turning up when they're supposed to.

Romesh Gunesekera

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines.

Rene Saguisag

Now that they are free men, if they have really escaped as the military claims, then the more they should be able to communicate with us with ease.

No coach, no matter how successful, ever completely escapes the pressure of winning.

George H. W. Bush

Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the violence,

We are talking about people plotting to escape from a sheriff department, plotting to kill witnesses. We take this very seriously,

We're not doing it to escape anything. We're doing it to help kids.

Colin Morgan

The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.