Quotes About Lucky Escapes

#1. Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

Mongo Beti

#2. Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

Confucius

#3. This makeover would make piercings and tattoos and brandings look so lame, all those little fashion revolts so safe that they themselves only become fashionable. Those little paper tiger attempts to reject looking good that only end up reinforcing it.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!

James Brown

#5. The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese.

Steven Wright

#6. Treat everyone with love and respect because they are your brother or your sister.

Ryron Gracie

#7. He who dies with the most toys is still dead.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.

Loren Eiseley

#9. So many women buy these boxy, shapeless jackets. I always tell them to buy a jacket one size too small to get the right fit.

Trinny Woodall

#10. They used to say of me that I'd as many lucky escapes as Harry Smith!'
'Shouldn't be at all surprised: I've seen one of 'em myself,' Brough said cryptically.

Georgette Heyer

#11. It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home
perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.

Ben Robertson

#12. All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities.

Siegfried Sassoon

#13. ...all teenagers do this. All teenagers separate from their parents. To grow up is to grow apart.

Nicola Yoon

#14. A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Bernard Malamud

#15. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain. Alina was the lucky one. Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. Standing beside you,
I took an oath
to make your life simpler
by complicating mine
and what I always thought
would happen did:
I was lifted up in joy.

David Ignatow

#17. I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

Carol Vorderman