Fugitive Quotes

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves.

The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure? Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness;

happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer.

He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive.

We're always on the side of the animal being chased.