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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. -- Frederick Douglass
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. -- Bill Mauldin
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found. -- Joan Rivers
When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb. -- Joe Pantoliano
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased. -- Norman Jewison
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. -- Eric Hoffer
Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.' -- Leslie Moonves
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. -- Charles Baudelaire
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I love the dog. She comes for drives with me in the back of my car. Darby is not aggressive or judgmental. She just is. That's what I love about her. She sits there and watches 'The Fugitive' with me. -- Sarah Bolger
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. -- George Santayana
Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has. -- Will Smith
I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community! -- Billy Corgan
Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive. -- Leslie Moonves
We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless. -- Cormac McCarthy
Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies. -- Roger Ebert
I'm not really a fugitive. -- Paul Watson
Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need. -- Aeschylus
Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver. -- Kevin Mitnick
No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle. -- Stephen Kinzer
A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice. -- Craig Brown
Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all. -- Sarah Brady
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. -- Charles Baudelaire
We believe Russian-American relations are broader and larger than emotions and mutual grudges, including the situation with the U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden. -- Sergei Lavrov
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself. -- Madame de Stael
Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution. -- Karen DeCrow
I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there. -- Kevin Mitnick
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare. -- Howard Zinn
Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity. -- Stacy Aumonier
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy. -- Martin Heidegger
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony. -- Roland Barthes
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. -- Edward Blake
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. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
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. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
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. -- John Milton
You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something. -- Alan Furst
My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job. -- Kevin Mitnick
Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to man, his feelings are perhaps the most evanescent, the greater part dying in the moment of their birth. But while emotions perish, thought blended in diction is immortal. -- William Benton Clulow
I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them. -- George Will
But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm. -- Vincent Van Gogh
You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested. -- Howie Carr
The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all. -- Kenneth Rexroth
For me, white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own. -- Peggy McIntosh
Man is a fugitive from nature. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The gods are fugitive guests of literature. -- Roberto Calasso
Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real. -- Jack Vance
He is a true fugitive who flies from reason. -- Marcus Aurelius
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. -- Marcel Proust
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal. -- Eliphas Levi
I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. -- Annie Dillard
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. -- John Milton
You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive. -- Bella Pollen
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds â?? large, light, and fugitive... -- David Gray
Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp. -- Simone Weil
The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts. -- Brandon Mull
One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp. -- Simone Weil
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals." -- Barbara Ehrenreich
O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! -- William Wordsworth
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom. -- Virgil
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. -- Michael Chabon
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects. -- Claude Monet
You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. -- Franz Kafka
How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier. -- Allen Ginsberg
Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment. -- Ellen Glasgow
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud! -- Barbara Kruger
I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk. They could probably make some fugitive spill the beans. -- Joelle Carter
I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions. -- Bertrand Russell
I am haunted by interrupted acts, introspective as a leper, enchanted by a repulsive clew, a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs. Is this the love that shook the lights to flame? -- Muriel Rukeyser
To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions. -- G.K. Chesterton
I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty. -- Jack Johnson
Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land. -- Elaine Scarry

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