Fugitive Quotes

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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… — Charles Baudelaire
Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you work hard and you happen… — Rudy Giuliani
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,… — Barbara Kruger
The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.… — George Will
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are… — Vikram Seth
Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger, A… — Henry Van Dyke
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
The gods are fugitive guests of literature. — Roberto Calasso
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… — Claude Monet
In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator â€“ perhaps even… — Adrian Goldsworthy
Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going… — Richard Halliburton
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased. — Norman Jewison
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… — Elaine Scarry
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into… — Patricia Hampl
He is a true fugitive who flies from reason. — Marcus Aurelius
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which… — John Milton
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… — Roland Barthes
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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… — Howard Zinn

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