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Quotes About Pursuers

Their pursuers suddenly stopped their efforts, grew quiet. "They gave up!" Mark said, embarrassed at the kidlike excitement in his voice. "Which means they're up to something," Alec replied. "We need to get inside this beast and get her ready to fly. And get that landing pad open.
~ James Dashner
You had the courage to commit those deeds, now have courage when your pursuers and justice are close at hand.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
with the limb, joined the others, Lia gasped. The three men stood talking in low voices for several minutes, and then they drew closer, heads down, slowly following her muddy footprint trail. Lia breathed into the sat phone, "Th-they're following
~ Lindsay McKenna
There was no safety for the survivors until they regained the cover of their artillery, which promptly drove the pursuers back with severe losses and shift without delay to the rebel batteries, blanketing them so accurately with shell-bursts that the fire drew an indirect compliment from Pelham himself, who happened to be visiting this part of the line at the time. Well, you men stand killing better than any I ever saw, he remarked as he watched the cannoneers being knocked about. (p. 37).
~ Shelby Foote
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.
~ Amy Bloom
The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.
~ Bharavi
Grab their lines! Stop that coffeehouse!" someone was shouting. "There are fugitives and cell-breakers aboard!
~ Frances Hardinge
This is where I learned that sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. Just as there is, in the real landscape of Paris in Les Misérables, that small fictional street Victor Hugo provides for Jean Valjean to slip into, in which to hide from his pursuers.
~ Michael Ondaatje
This last year, I have been in flight But always in ignorance of invisible pursuers. Now I know that all my life has been a flight
~ T.S. Eliot
Restraining orders (often called TRO's) have long been homework assignments police give women to prove they're really committed to getting away from their pursuers.
~ Gavin de Becker
With relief, I'd waved goodbye to my guardian-pursuers on the coast of Lansaal and headed north, visualising them as diminishing specks on the shore, impotently ranting at my defection. See, it is a joke. I am not afraid of them.
~ Storm Constantine
No matter how often I had tried to change the image in my head, whenever I thought of my guardian pursuers, I masked them with the faces of the Metatronims I had seen in Sacramante.
~ Storm Constantine
Most of the travel was purposeless, carried out in exactly the desperate spirit of fleeing from pursuers. It was romantic, in a certain sense. Especially if you're not the one doing it.
~ Charles Frazier
Ignorance and evil, even in full flight, deal terrible backhanded      strokes at their pursuers.—HELPS.
~ Charles Kingsley
the spread of consumer technology has given the traffickers a boost and helped them keep the edge over their pursuers.
~ Moisés Naím
A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite. O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,
~ Psalm 7:1
Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
~ Psalm 142:6
Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
~ Lamentations 1:3