“America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.”
Senator John Kerry
“They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.”
Bible
“She just moved here three weeks ago. She fled her previous residence so that he would not know where she was.”
Mike Miller
“Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.”
“And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.”
“One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.”
Charles de Lint
“I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.”
Christopher Morley