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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul
Life
Our
See
More
Through
Clearer
Hourglass
Escaped
Sand
Should
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Life
Our
See
More
Through
Clearer
Hourglass
Escaped
Sand
Should
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Harriet Tubman
Free
Seen
Back
Saw
Hundreds
Dreadful
Willing
Never
Know
Go
Been
Condition
Escaped
Who
Now
Slave
Slavery
Slaves
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.
Steve Jobs
Life
Death
Best
Change
Destination
People
Old
Invention
Single
Way
Out
No-One
Share
Clears
New
Likely
Make
Because
Go
Very
Escaped
Get
Die
Heaven
Want
Wants
Agent
Should
Who
Even
Ever
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
Smile
Fear
Single
Outrageous
Masks
None
Go
Years
Austere
Escaped
Quite
File
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel
Future
Those
Possession
Adolescence
Taken
Escaped
Just
Who
Elegance
Prerogative
But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Ronnie Barker
Today
Time
News
Police
First
Looking
Minister
Chased
Through
Spokesman
Prime
Like
House
House Of Commons
Said
Yard
Question
Off
Scotland
Escaped
Front
Front Door
Door
After
Commons
Sealed
Lunatic
Needle
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
Day
Home
Needs
Me
Think
Feel
Like
Escaped
Get
Sanctuary
Need
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
Eben Alexander
Death
Good
People
Those
Had
Journeys
Scientific
Understand
Always
Narrowly
Were
Brain
Escaped
Heavenly
Happens
Explanations
Who
Believed
Near
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson
First
Has-Been
Remembered
Calamity
First Thing
How
How Much
Been
Escaped
Any
The First Thing
Much
Suffered
Thing
At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.
Ann Wilson
Love
War
Time
Men
Young
Those
Followed
Guy
He
Fell
Him
Go
Lot
Escaped
Canada
Want
Young Men
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.
Anthony Hecht
Saying
Best
Yourself
First
Stage
Sense
Finally
Penetrate
Lies
Mystery
Through
Had
Over
Like
Return
Pass
Till
Nonsense
Lines
Lot
Escaped
Trying
Done
Again
Notice
Full
Fun
Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
Bhagat Singh
World
Dark
Prison
Live
Type
Those
Worst
Embrace
Only
Bear
Ideal
Also
Escaped
Revolutionaries
Cells
Cannot
Should
Show
Who
Chance
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
Sometimes
Thinking
Boot
Boot Camp
Football
Almost
Feel
Like
Camp
Wonder
Escaped
Barbaric
Playing
The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.
Cecil Frank Powell
Matter
Other
Recognition
Photographic
Atomic
Features
Had
Particles
Particular
Method
Methods
Existence
Escaped
Establish
Which
Forms
Transient
Us
I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.
Chris Farley
Work
Me
Lose
Once
Month
Desserts
Nuts
Pounds
Had
Driving
Picked
Weights
Arnold
Dome
Up
Escaped
Trying
Center
Santa
Santa Monica
Tom
Monica
Treadmill
Tons
I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.
Christo
Home
Country
Bulgaria
West
Escaped
Then
Czechoslovakia
I just survived a Disney career without singing. I don't want to, like, fall back in. I feel like I escaped, so if we could avoid it for as long as possible, that would be great.
Cole Sprouse
Great
Long
Singing
Fall
Back
Possible
Would
Would-Be
Could
Feel
Like
Without
Escaped
Survived
Just
Want
Disney
Avoid
Career
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
Danny Boyle
Art
Culture
People
Background
Through
Sort
Escaped
Often
I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.
Douglas Tompkins
Class
Business
World
Out
Somehow
Something
More
Had
Feel
Escaped
Get
Just
Confines
Break
Meaning
Really
Fortunate
Lucky
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 real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.
Edward Carpenter
Thoughts
Soul
Too Much
Think
Too
Out
Self
Towards
Over
Over It
Reach
Dead
Real
Friend
Escaped
Mourn
Send
Which
Much
Your
I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?
Edward St Aubyn
Laughter
Think
Some
Horror
Escaped
I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.
Evel Knievel
Stayed
Days
Been
Escaped
Center
Then
Two
Treatment
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon
Time
History
Some
Casually
Shipwreck
Escaped
Which
As someone who escaped religious persecution in Lebanon and whose parents were kidnapped in Beirut, I fully support the protection of all individuals from institutional discrimination. That said, I am weary of the ethos of victimhood that has parasitized our culture.
Gad Saad
Culture
Weary
Protection
Parents
Our
Kidnapped
Religious
Someone
Support
Individuals
Institutional
Said
Am
Lebanon
Were
Persecution
Discrimination
Escaped
Ethos
Who
Fully
Beirut
Whose
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
Gerard Arpey
Business
Economics
Year
Our
Some
Deteriorate
Tougher
Had
Make
However
Continue
Escape
Escaped
Bankruptcy
Aftermath
Decisions
Barely
Even
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