Running Away Quotes - Page 20

• I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Running, Country

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• I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

  John Adams

  Running, Father, Land

  John Adams, Lyman Henry Butterfield (1961). “Diary and Autobiography: Diary, 1782-1804. Autobiography to October 1776”

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• I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Running, Blow, My Family

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Character, Ideas

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.123, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

  John Piper

  Running, Heart, Waiting

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• When things go really really bad - life is going to have its way with you no matter who you are - and when things get really really bad, that's the time to stand up and keep going, and to push, not to fall down or run away.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Running, Fall, Matter

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 3, 2014.

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• I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

  John Howard

  Running, Government, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Animal, Rocks

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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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• I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.

  Stephen Fry

  Running, Spiritual, Kindness

  "The Importance of Unbelief". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.

  Alison Lurie

  Girl, Running, Class

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• each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.

  Storm Jameson

  Running, Betrayed, Illness

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• When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Running, Reading, Writing

  ""Something that's not yourself." — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Men, Sea

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

  Carlos Beltran

  Running, Home, Giving

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• Those who run away from the reality will eventually get run over by it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Reality

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• We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Apples, Bird

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.

  Emilio Pucci

  Running, Bores You, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.

  Adyashanti

  Running, Dog, Leashes

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• A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Hero, Men

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• It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.

  Brit Marling

  Running, Husband, Teenager

  Source: collider.com

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• We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Fall, Battle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Heart, Preacher

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.370, Courier Corporation

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• Don't say a woman is crazy just because she runs away from her wedding.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Crazy

  Bill Maher (2005). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.94, Rodale

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• I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.

  Demetri Martin

  Running, Numbers, Machines

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