Fugitive Quotes

65 quotes by 58 authors

Man is a fugitive from nature. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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… — Vincent Van Gogh
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. — John Milton
I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of… — Alan Bradley
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity;… — Eliphas Levi
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. — Marcel Proust
And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds â€” large, light, and fugitive... — David Gray
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… — Henri Frederic Amiel
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… — Jay Sekulow
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
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… — Bertrand Russell
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… — Howie Carr
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and… — Horace
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal. — Eliphas Levi
O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! — William Wordsworth
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. — Frederick Douglass
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. — Eric Hoffer
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found. — Joan Rivers
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… — George Santayana

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