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Quotes About Flee

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
~ Homer
Best to flee now, before the pitchforks and torches and scientists come calling.
~ Rachel Caine
Run, damn you!
~ Rachel Caine
Get out of here while you can. She's crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease.
~ Dean Koontz
again he begs his victim to flee for his life.
~ Inaz? Nitobe
blow this pop stand
~ Dan Gutman
In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.
~ Unknown
U fufasto i fa?kasto grmlje on bježi, gdje vabe dame a gospoda vrebaju iz tame.
~ John Barth
He didn't turn to look at his home or family behind him (Escape; for thy soul, do not look behind thee, neither stop thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. – Gen. 19:17b), but fled towards the middle of the plain.
~ John Bunyan
The soul under the burden of sin cannot flee." —Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
~ Jack Ketchum
We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security
~ Unknown
An escapists' life is summarized by one word; RUN.
~ Unknown
We have fled great evil, and to escape it we have done great evil. We are tainted.
~ Madeline Miller
It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature by "add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, as if anything that came out of language could make language tremble.
~ Maggie Nelson
Lucas whispered hoarsely: "Leave town. Go to Los Angeles. Go to New York. If you don't go away, I'll hurt you.
~ John Sandford
What's the RLH protocol?" I asked. "It means run like hell
~ John Scalzi
Let's just say that I anticipated that when I needed to leave Ponthieu, it would be suddenly, and that I might be chased. And that those chasing me might prefer that if I couldn't be caught, that I should be rendered into very small pieces.
~ John Scalzi
Master Ren: "Inquisitrix! Be warned: I am commander Ren Mormorian, apprentice nekomancer to the great and ancient two-faced Zorian of Whiteclaw House! I have raised the ancient dead! I have fought the wraithmen of the Forsaken Forests! Cross me at your own peril! You can't blame a cat for trying. Flee!
~ Marjorie M. Liu
What did you do before?" "I used to run a lot.""Cross country? Track?""From the cops, actually.
~ Unknown
Tural left with the air of escaping before things got worse.
~ Martha Wells
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness (1 Timothy 6:11).
~ Bible
Judas had given them the slip.
~ Matthew Henry
The bad moment had fled. All you ever had to do to make a bad moment flee was acquiesce. This was true everywhere in life, even though so much of Loci's focus was supposedly on not acquiescing.
~ Meg Wolitzer
It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.
~ Michael Chang