We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.
Quotes about fleeing (16 Quotes)
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Civilians are still being attacked and fleeing their villages even as we speak, many months after the government committed itself to bring the militias under control, ... It is urgent to take action now.
It is foolish to think that by fleeing one can trick the dread god of death. Let us treat him as a beneficent angel rather than a dread god. We must face and welcome him whenever he comes.
Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.
Near-term, in a market environment in which investors are fleeing to quality, its stock could continue to do well. Our analysis, however, suggests that the company's long-term earnings growth is likely to be slower than the 15 percent to 20 percent consensus.
Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.
Baghdad would seem particularly vulnerable to such a wait-it-out strategy. It is not even close to being self-sufficient. If U. S. troops cut off the supply of water, food, electricity and communications, civilians would no doubt quickly begin fleeing to the safety of refugee camps set up outside the cordon. The U. S. military could wait for the white flag of surrender to flutter outside the range of most of Saddam's weapons. Armed with intelligence gleaned from fleeing refugees, the Americans could attack key targets inside the city with long-range weapons. Such a siege could help nurture one prized U. S. goal Saddam's falling at the hands of his own people. Baghdad is one of those classic cities that happen to contain all the kindling necessary to spark a revolt, ... You'd have the ruling elite and the army cheek by jowl with the people, who despise both the elite and the army.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
But the rare occurrence of such a deadly tidal wave and the impact it had on travel destinations catering to western tourists generated unprecedented attention and giving. We saw tourists fleeing for their lives, ... We don't have that in Pakistan.