Running Away Quotes - Page 27

• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Acceptance, Elephants

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

  T. S. Eliot

  Running, Opposites, Independence

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Letting Go, Running

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.

  Alan Watts

  Running, Moving, Past

  "The Way of Zen".

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• Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Funny, Running, Witty

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• That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

  Paul Tournier

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Believe, Son

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

  Jay Crownover

  Running, Real, Hard Work

  Jay Crownover (2014). “Rome (The Marked Men, Book 3)”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

  Nicole Kidman

  Running, Jobs, Roles

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 24, 2013

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• Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.

  Donna Brazile

  Running, Tough Times, African American

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• I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.

  Paul Newman

  Running, Business, Romance

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• If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

  Larry David

  Running, Flirting, Knows

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

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• I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Strong, Men

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.674, Delphi Classics

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• If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.

  Robin Gibb

  Running, Art, Reality

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• Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.

  Madeleine Delbrel

  God, Faith, Running

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• You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.288, e-artnow

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• The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

  Scott Adams

  Running, Food, Firsts

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.448, Penguin

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• One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Trying, Double Standard

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• In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.

  Rumi

  Running, Love Is, Dying

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.334, Penguin UK

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• Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

  John Wayne

  Running, Men, Western Movie

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.56, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Horses are consistent and logical. The horse will do what is easiest for him. If you make it easy for him to buck you off, kick you, and run away, that’s just what he’s going to do. And more power to him. But if you make it easy for the horse to be relaxed and calm and accurate — and also have it be a beautiful dance between you and the horse — it won’t be too long before he’ll be hunting for that just as hard as you are. Whatever you make easy for the horse, that’s what he’s going to get good at.

  Buck Brannaman

  Beautiful, Running, Horse

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• What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

  Willa Cather

  Running, Sweet, Art

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

  Barry Mann

  Running, Song, Musician

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• Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

  William Hazlitt

  Running, Fashion, Gentility

  William Hazlitt (1856). “Criticisms on Art”, p.92

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• Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

  Rolf Potts

  Running, Might, Problem

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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