#fugitive

I have spent my whole life preparing to be William Wallace’s wife. The choices I make are defined by the person I am. “I am Mrs. William Victor Wallace. I am married to a federal felon whom I love unconditionally. I hold my head high, I take pride in my life and I walk this world without regret. I will be the perfect wife and my husband deserves nothing less. ↗

— Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#forgiveness #fugitive #husband #marriage #prison

The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head. ↗

— James Carlos Blake

#first-sentence #fugitive #family

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

#being #changing #constantly #contingent #despised

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#being #first #fugitive #had #i

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#earmarks #fugitive #most #ourselves #passionate

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

#been #excited #fugitive #gladly #happiness

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#constitutionally #fail #fugitive #hereafter #intend

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

— Norman Jewison

#always #animal #being #chased #fugitive