Fugitive Quotes - Page 4

• Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Grief, Holiday

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Hard Work, Cities, People

  "New York Officials Welcome Immigrants, Legal or Illegal". www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1994.

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• Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

  Elaine Scarry

  Real, Land, Bird

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.86, Princeton University Press

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• Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

  Will Smith

  Character, Energy, Looks

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• We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

  Norman Jewison

  Animal, Roots, Sides

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• Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.

  Patricia Hampl

  Humble, Night, Knitting

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• Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger, A fugitive child 'mid the perils of earth - Cheer with Thy fellowship all who are weary, Wandering far from the land that they love: Guide every heart that is homeless and dreary, Safe to its home in Thy presence above.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Jesus, Children, Cheer

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, occasionally to win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive movements of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Winning, Past

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• He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Logic, Reason, Reason And Logic

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• He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

  John Milton

  Christian, Running, Race

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12

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• 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.

  Michael Chabon

  Soul, Lurking

  "Wonder Boys". Book by Michael Chabon, 1995.

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• Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved. The second season of Underground does explore Canada's role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.

  Aisha Hinds

  Safe, Canada, Way

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk. They could probably make some fugitive spill the beans.

  Joelle Carter

  Long, People, Would Be

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One of the kind of unexpectedly liberating things of becoming this global fugitive is the fact that you don't worry so much about tomorrow. You think more about today. And unexpectedly, I like that very much.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Worry, Today

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.

  Max Kozloff

  Memories, Objectivity, Perception

  Max Kozloff (1979). “Photography & Fascination: Essays”

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• I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

  Jack Johnson

  Ocean, Men, Blessing

  Jack Johnson (1969). “Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography”

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• Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Essence, Seductive

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• Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as unjust. And when we affirm this judgment, we're not merely saying that all those people who owned slaves were unethical people; they shouldn't have done that. We do believe this, but that's only part of the point. We also believe that the fugitive slave laws were unjust.

  Thomas Pogge

  Believe, Law, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Sick, Feelings, Strange

  Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.74, Harper Collins

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• To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  America, Homeless, Born

  "Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue" by Barbara Ehrenreich, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2011.

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• Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Art, Taken, School

  Manuel Álvarez Bravo, A. D. Coleman (1987). “Manuel Álvarez Bravo”, Aperture

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• What are you to us, you who are cut off from God, a fugitive for Heaven, and a slave of evil? You dare not do anything to us: Christ, the Son of God, has dominion over us and over all. Leave us, you thing of bane. We are made steadfast by the uprightness of His Cross. Serpent, we trample on your head.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Son, Cutting, Evil

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• 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.

  Virgil

  Fate, Journey, Men

  Virgil, Barry Moser, Allen Mandelbaum (2007). “The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

  Eliphas Levi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Reflection

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• The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Remains

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.1278, Jester House Publishing

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