Get Away Quotes - Page 35

• If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

  Hilary Mantel

  Party, Sleep, Exercise

  FaceBook post by Hilary Mantel from Nov 03, 2012

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• The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

  Dylan Moran

  Trends, Stage, Sitcom

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

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• Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Strong, Use, Rationale

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• You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thinking, Israel, Giving

  "One-on-one with Prime Minister Netanyahu". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Important, Special

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

  Rachel Nichols

  Genre Is, Talking, Hot

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• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

  Earl Nightingale

  Night, Ideas, Paper

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• Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Sometimes, Abundance

  "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006". abcnews.go.com. December 12, 2006.

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• It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

  Marguerite Duras

  Achieve, Where You Are

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.23, Pantheon

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• How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

  Libba Bray

  Certain, Knows

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Mean, Scary

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Leaving, Ships

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.421, Penguin

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• She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her.

  Paulo Coelho

  Taken, Men, Hands

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• ... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'" "Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo. "The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..." "... is Locke ..." "... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..." "... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.

  Scott Lynch

  Brother, Cheer, Thinking

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• I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

  Sylvia Plath

  Witty, Food, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.16, Hamilton Books

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• Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cheating, Hands, Infidelity

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• A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

  Agatha Christie

  Attitude, Men, Soul

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!

  Douglas MacArthur

  Enemy, Behinds, Left

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• You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They don't know what they do. They are careless with themselves and they take too much for granted. They make their shortcomings your problem. The only way to keep your head above it and heal your wounds is to crawl away.

  Henry Rollins

  Too Much, Way, Problem

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• All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

  Margaret Fuller

  Lying, Blow, Wind

  Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.146, Rutgers University Press

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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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• He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

  Joseph Conrad

  Hated

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.584, e-artnow

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• Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

  Craig Ferguson

  Money, Drinking, Heart

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• You would kill or enslave everyone? There is so much beauty in the world that they’d destroy. How do you not see it? (Delphine) Spoken like someone who has only lived in the cushioned world of dreams. You have no idea what the real world is like. What people will do to you when they know they can get away with it. People are absolutely cruel and I say more power to Noir for tearing it down. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Real, Ideas

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• Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

  Jodi Picoult

  Matter, No Matter What, Magnet

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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