Fugitive Quotes - Page 5

• Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.

  Leslie Moonves

  Would Be, Supposed To Be, Seasons

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• Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.

  Eliphas Levi

  Beauty, Passing, Eternal

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• O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!

  William Wordsworth

  Joy, Remember, Embers

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 9

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• How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Life, Fall, Leafs

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?

  Jane Addams

  Men, Race, Order

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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• The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Struggle, Punishment, Issues

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.82, New Directions Publishing

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• 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 frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grief, Men, Joy

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself... That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitiude for the gift of life.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Art, Thinking, Expression

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• To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

  Martin Heidegger

  Mean, Night, Singing

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• I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them.

  George Will

  Moving, Law, Care

  "George Will Compares This Budget Deadlock To Past Conflicts". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 9, 2013.

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• A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Memories, Intellectual

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