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Quotes About Fugitive

Ublala Pung grunted a laugh. 'They'd never find her if it was a manhunt.
~ Steven Erikson
The problem was so widespread that in 1793 Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Act.
~ Catherine Clinton
And these acid adventures, they came in those days and they went, some we gave away and forgot, others sad to say turned out to be fugitive of false-but with luck one or two would get saved to go back to at certain later moments in life. This look from brand-new Prairie-oh, you, huh?-would be there for Zoyd more than once in years to come, to help him through those times when the Klingons are closing, and the helm won't answer, and the warp engine's out of control.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Ten percent is a premium you pay a surety company, or bail bondsman, Coffey said. To get a bond in almost all cases you have to be able to fully collateralize that $150,000, meaning that either George Zimmerman or his parents have to come up with a $150,000 second mortgage on their house or from a bank. The bonding company is not a charity. They stand to lose the money. They have more than just fugitive hunters [to track down a defendant who flees.] They get collateral up front.
~ Kendall Coffey
And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him
~ Isabel Allende
Hi. I'm on the run from the FBI, Interpol, and a Las Vegas criminal gang," I announced bluntly, to avoid any misunderstandings. "Congratulations," he said.
~ Isabel Allende
Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun. ...He's the Akron AWOL?!
~ Neal Shusterman
President Franklin Pierce, determined to demonstrate the federal government's resolve to enforce the act, dispatched 2,000 soldiers to Boston to recapture a single fugitive.
~ Timothy Sandefur
The piece of sky she could glimpse was a dark carpet of gleaming knives pointed at her and aching to be released. She felt world-hurt—an awareness of malign forces changing her from a courageous adventurer into a fugitive.
~ Toni Morrison
No one was in the car, but now that he was harboring a fugitive he had developed a level of situational awareness that bordered on painful.
~ carsten stroud
Most of them were running away from something?usually the law.
~ Jack Kerouac
It was stupid for a fugitive terrorist to go to a gas station, but in order to be a fugitive you have to fuge, and it's hard to fuge without gas.
~ Neal Stephenson
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
~ Larry McMurtry
It's a Cinderella story, only at midnight she turns back into a fugitive.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To myself I whispered that I still had my gun, and was still a free man -- free to trace the fugitive, free to destroy my brother.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
No, Viana: ahora eres una proscrita.
~ Laura Gallego García
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 fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Reality was the keener for being fugitive, concealed, and doubtful...
~ Guy Davenport
The Truant is no longer on the wanted list, sir. Minimal collateral casualties.
~ James Luceno
James James Jameson – his real name – who had escaped state prison
~ Thomas Mullen
A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
~ Craig Brown
It was the judge and the imbecile. They were both of them naked and they neared through the desert dawn like beings of a mode little more than tangential to the world at large, their figures now quick with clarity and now fugitive in the strangeness of that same light. Like things whose very portent renders them ambiguous. Like things so charged with meaning that their forms are dimmed.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There was no wind and the silence out there was greatly favored by every kind of fugitive as was the open country itself and no mountains close at hand for enemies to black themselves against.
~ Cormac McCarthy