How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!
. . if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact. A bargain can not be broken on one side, and still bind the other side.
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.
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.
I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
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.
The gods are fugitive guests of literature.
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.
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.
You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals. "
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!
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.
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.
