Runaway Quotes

• The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Jobs, Zero, Reality

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• You can run but you can't hide

  Emily Giffin

  Running, Escaping, Marine Corps

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.353, Macmillan

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• That was totally against the runaway

  Iain Dowie

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• The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing self-inflicted curse of apathy and start demanding Constitutional accountability from our elected employees.

  Ted Nugent

  Heart, Self, Media

  "Ted Nugent on GOP: 'I pray to God they finally rediscover their scrotum'". Interview with Jared Boyd, www.al.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Long, Environmental, Mars

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• If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead.

  Christina Ricci

  Acting, Hollywood, Gone

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

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• Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.

  Johan Norberg

  Philosophy, Political, World

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• These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War and the end - or at least waning - of less successful, and ultimately less "just," political and economic systems. At the turn of the 21st century we appear to be entering our greatest century, a golden age. The challenge that we face is similar to that of the Classic Maya civilization: we have set in motion a "runaway train" of success.

  Arthur Demarest

  War, Successful, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

  Michelle Shocked

  Real, Army, Identity

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• Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred.
  But here is not a question of what's sacred;
  Rather of what to face or run away from.
  I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.

  Robert Frost

  Running, Nature, Hate

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.

  Nick Clooney

  Class, Germany, Nazi

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• The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

  Jean Cocteau

  Sports, Wisdom, Horse

  Jean Cocteau (1926). “A call to order: written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including Cock and harlequin, Professional secrets, and other critical essays”, Haskell House Pub Ltd

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• The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

  Bob Schaffer

  Gun, Government, People

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• More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Nature, Technology, Men

  "No Easy Victories". Book by John William Gardner, ed. Helen Rowan, Harper & Row, p. 57, 1968.

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• All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

  Mario Batali

  Wedding, Reading, Book

  "An Introduction and Rallying Cry" by Mario Batali, www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.

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• One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Horse, Gambling, Way

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• Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Samuel Rutherford, Hamilton Smith (2008). “Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford”, p.83, Scripture Truth

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• I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

  Julia Roberts

  Wedding, Fun, Play

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• America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

  Joni Mitchell

  America, World, Ill

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• Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

  Al Lewis

  Friday, Sunset, Kids

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• Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.

  Joan Jett

  Baby, Fun, Goal

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• Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

  Sherrod Brown

  Party, Government, Republican

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• But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Ties, Track

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• You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow.Blue skies, but the sun isn't comming out, no. Today, it is like I'm under a heavy cloud." Avril Lavigne (Runaway)

  Avril Lavigne

  Clouds, Blue, Sky

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• Same old boring boring story America can’t stop telling itself. What is this sicko fascination? Every book and movie practically has to have a little, right? But why do you think all those runaways are on the streets tearing up their veins with junk and selling themselves so they can sleep in the gutter? What do you think the alternative was at home?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Book, Sleep, Home

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