Away From You Quotes - Page 8

• If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign.

  Dave Matthews

  Song, Momentum, Sides

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• And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Struggle, Heart, Fighting

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• All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Taken, Wings, White

  Czeslaw Milosz, “On Angels”

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• Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

  Petra Stunt

  Taken, Worry, Healthy

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• All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Stars, Believe, Taken

  Czeslaw Milosz, “On Angels”

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• And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.

  Mark Haddon

  Stars, Nice, Taken

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• It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

  Emma Forrest

  Real, Believe, Force Fields

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.51, A&C Black

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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• Don't try to be something you're not. If you're goofy, be goofy if you're serious be serious. And no matter what, give everything you have and enjoy it while you can because it can all be taken away from you at any given moment.

  Derek Holland

  Taken, Giving, Trying

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• Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll...I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you," she improvised. "And that I got mugged," she added for good measure. Cries of "Mon Dieu!" and "That's not fair!" echoed immediately from the two vampires. "I'm a crazy human female, you know I'll do it," Denise warned them

  Jeaniene Frost

  Crazy, Thinking, Two

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• ..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.

  Clive Barker

  Taken, World, Care

  Clive Barker (2009). “Mister B. Gone”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER.

  Dave Barry

  People, Glaciers, Backing Away

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.192, Ballantine Books

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• But I'll tell you something else, too. Something I've learned, the hard way. I guess"—Gram laughed a little—"I'm the kind of person who has to learn things the hard way. You've got to hold on. Hold on to people. They can get away from you. It's not always going to be fun, but if you don't—hold on—then you lose them.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Fun, People, Littles

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• Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ideas, Creating, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.171, Penguin

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• All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

  Nora Raleigh Baskin

  Reality, Talking, Long

  Nora Raleigh Baskin (2009). “Anything But Typical”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

  John Carmack

  Zero, Teaching, Games

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• There's a famous story about Dizzy [Gillespie] and Art Blakey taking him aside, and spending a whole night-long talk with [Phil Wood], "Man we believe in you. You can play. So don't be walking around with a frown on your face or whatever, getting yourself into trouble. You have got a gift, and nobody is going to take that away from you." So that meant the world to him.

  Jon Gordon

  Art, Believe, Night

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• I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Twilight, Giving

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.

  Taika Waititi

  Thinking, Laughing, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed a weapon capable of destroying all of Boaderland, Wonderland, Morgavia, Unterlan and who knows what else. I call it WILMA, which stands for Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation. It also happens to be the name of one of my former wives, who had to be put down on account of her feisty temper.

  Frank Beddor

  Loss, Hands, Names

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• Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Country, Taken

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.

  George Jung

  Taken, Years, Apathy

  Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Thinking, Errors

  Philip K. Dick (2015). “Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.13, Melville House

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• Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Freedom, People, Literature

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• God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  God, Letting Go, Dream

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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