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Quotes About Fugitive

Pensamos, he said, que somos las victimas del tiempo. En realidad la via del mundo no es fijada en ningun lugar. Como seria posible? Nosotros mismos somos nuestra propia jornada. Y por eso somos el tiempo tambien. Somos lo mismo. Fugitivo. Inescrutable. Desapiadado.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I'm a fugitive from the ways of this world. I'd be a fugitive from my mind if I had me some snow.
~ Cormac McCarthy
que somos las víctimas del tiempo. En realidad la vía del mundo no es fijada en ningún lugar. Cómo sería posible? Nosotros mismos somos nuestra propia jornada. Y por eso somos el tiempo también. Somos lo mismo. Fugitivo. Inescrutable. Desapiadado.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Kind of. White guy, maybe in his thirties, really big. Driving an old brown Toyota. The cops are after him now.
~ Creston Mapes
The war has naught to do with slaves, cried Congress, the President, and the Nation; and yet no sooner had the armies, East and West, penetrated Virginia and Tennessee than fugitive slaves appeared within their lines.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Biographical Sketch, In Fugitive Crayons, of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford
~ John Pinkerton, 1799
But then his idea of a fugitive was only an idea of the letters that spell the word, - or at the most, the image of a little newspaper picture of a man with a stick and bundle with 'Ran away from the subscriber' under it. The magic of the real presence of distress, -- the imploring human eye, frail, trembling human hand, the despairing appeal of helpless agony, -- these he had never tried.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless child,—like
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
South Carolina went on what was described as a "war footing" and commenced the hunt for the remaining slaves. 9 Every white male in the colony was armed, and checkpoints were established at ferry crossings. Members of the local Chickasaw and Catawba tribes were offered a bounty for every black they caught.
~ Lawrence Goldstone
el que no está preso, lo andan buscando
~ Helen Graham
Several other pro-slavery laws were also passed by Democrats in Congress, including the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. 42 That law required Northerners to return escaped slaves back into slavery or else pay huge fines.
~ David Barton
But who knew what would happen once he got to Canada? Canada with its pacifism and its socialized medicine! Canada with its millions of French speakers! It was like…like…like a foreign country! Father Mike might become a fugitive over there, living it up in Quebec. He might disappear into Saskatchewan and roam with the moose. -Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003), P. 507
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Para Rick Deckard, un robot humanoide fugitivo, equipado con inteligencia superior a la de muchos seres humanos, que hubiera matado a su amo, que no tuviera consideración por los animales ni fuera capaz de sentir alegría empática por el éxito de otra forma de vida, ni dolor por su derrota, era la síntesis de los Asesinos.
~ Philip K. Dick
Para Rick Deckard, un robot humaniode fugitivo, equipado con una inteligencia artificial superior a la de muchos seres humanos, que hubiera matado a su amo, que no tuviera consideración por los animales ni que fuera capaz de sentir alegría empática por el éxito de otra forma de vida, ni dolor por su derrota, era la síntesis de los Asesinos.
~ Philip K. Dick
She was ready to be a fugitive with him for the rest of her life - 'Whither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall be my people' - and when a Parisienne is ready to leave Paris behind forever, that's something. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
~ Cornell Woolrich
The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. "A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth;" and "Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold."
~ Unknown
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.
~ Vikram Seth
The best day… is the first to flee.
~ Virgil
intenté escribir lo que fue la «historia de mi vida» en los bosques, inmediatamente después de mi fuga del campo de concentración.
~ Philip Roth
I feel like I'm some kind of fugitive here, like I'm hiding from something. Maybe myself.
~ Rachel Caine
When you're on the run from the law, you need beans in your belly, tough-guy food.
~ Dean Koontz
The light faded slowly, retreating through the trees. The thick mossy trunks grew dense with shadow, edges still rimmed with a fugitive light that hid among the leaves, green shadows shifting with the sunset breeze.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The most significant events, Bishop seems to argue, are destined to remain outside the scope of description. It is perhaps their very status as excessive or fugitive that makes them, in the end, significant. A poet who believes such things will not arrive uncomplicatedly at self-description.
~ Unknown
She is more than just a liar; she and her husband Bill are corrupt and known to be corrupt, going back to their Arkansas days. Just prior to leaving the White House, the Clintons pardoned a notorious fugitive who had fled the country to escape prosecution on racketeering and tax fraud. Pardons don't come free—the man's family and friends poured millions of dollars into the Clinton coffers in exchange.
~ Dinesh D'Souza