Fled Quotes
142 quotes by 124 authors
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He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life’s battle to…
— Edwin Markham
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For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease…
— Douglas Adams
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And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?
— Rick Riordan
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The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crushing her to him. "Jenny," he whispered hoarsely,…
— Judith McNaught
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
— Ray Bradbury
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The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After…
— William Goldman
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Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly,…
— Jeanette Winterson
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IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never…
— William Shakespeare
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I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right…
— Laini Taylor
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O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
— William Shakespeare
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When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I…
— Nizar Qabbani
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I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.
— Cassandra Clare
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But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is…
— Adam Gidwitz
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Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of…
— John Dewey
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All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and…
— Eugene Jarecki
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Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the…
— Chief Seattle
Who Wrote These Fled Quotes
124 authors contributed a total of 142 Fled Quotes, led by these top contributors: