Get Away Quotes - Page 24

• The awful thing about being fat is you can't get away from it. Everywhere you go, there it is; all round you; hanging and swinging, yards and yards of it, under your arms, everywhere. And everyone else is so thin.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Yards, Weight, Arms

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• Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There's nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn't work because it's escapism in spiritual clothing. It's wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn't want to feel the pain anymore. When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Pain, People

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• In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Challenges, Environmental

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's too great. All those months, when the same blood's running through two sets of veins - there's no getting away from that, ever after. Take yours. As I say, does she need to open her mouth? Not she! She's only got to let it hang at the corners, and you reek, you drip with guilt.

  Henry Handel Richardson

  Mother, Running, Mean

  Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1934). “The End of a Childhood”

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• When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Years, Ego, Age

  Tess Gerritsen (2012). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl”, p.1858, Ballantine Books

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• Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Girl, Important, Impossible

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• Everything is possible for the writer. There isn’t anything anyone can tell you that you can’t do, and there is no such thing as "getting away with" anything. There’s no one to tell you what you can or can’t do. You’re only limited by the fences you allow yourself to build around yourself, for whatever reason, including fidelity to some idea about literature someone else imposed upon you some time long ago or five minutes ago.

  Kyle Minor

  Long Ago, Ideas, Literature

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn't be that way, but you can get away with it. But if you're highlighting this astounding artichoke, it's got to be an astounding artichoke.

  Michael Pollan

  Important, Technique, Way

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

  Joe Torre

  Cheating, Problem, No Problem

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• Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

  D. H. Lawrence

  Boys, Somewhere Else, Ideas

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• Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.

  Susan Choi

  Culture, Flip, Sides

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• John Kerry keeping a low profile this week. He said he wanted to get away and go someplace where no one would expect to see him. So I guess he showed up at his old seat in the Senate. Nobody's going to look for him there.

  Jay Leno

  Looks, Week, Profile

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• A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].

  Robin Williams

  Golf, Cycling, Peaceful

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• The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

  Ben Kingsley

  Hunters, Looks, Jaguars

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• We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person.

  Tim Gunn

  Want, Be Confident, Dressings

  "Tim Gunn's Take on Fall Fashion". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2006.

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• Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

  Rose Macaulay

  Work, Dull, Existence

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• ... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.

  Carolyn Wells

  Uplifting, Men, Color

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, War, Cutting

  Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I Have Seen”, New York : Random House

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• When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.

  Anita Loos

  Ambition, People, Hollywood

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• Whatever may be the reason, whether it was that Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fighting for it, orwhether it was that after all the preparations were not sufficiently complete--however, one thing is certain: he missed the bus.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Speech at Central Hall,Westminster, England, 4 Apr. 1940

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• I eat whatever I want. I can get away with it. There are some strict regiment eatings, but I don't follow them.

  Tyler Posey

  Want, Eating, Strict

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Want, Fly Away, Yeah

  Song: Fly Away

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• Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again-it's all good.

  Chad Michael Murray

  School, People, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Reality, Names

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chödrön, December 24, 1996.

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• The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.

  Henry Adams

  Home, Greek, Style

  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.116, BookRix

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