Running Away Quotes - Page 8

• For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy, claiming her emotionally; then, when she began to claim in return, running away. And the better a woman was, the sooner he would begin to run. I knew this with my intuition, and yet I sat there in my dark room, looking at the hazed wet brilliance of the purple London night sky, longing with my whole being.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Dark, Night

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• Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Buddhism, Order

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2003.

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• Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Running, Technology, Reality

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• You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

  Keira Knightley

  Running, Thinking, Trying

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• I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

  Ricky Schroder

  Running, Children, Careers

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• For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Stars, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Running, Men, Skins

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• IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Running, Flying, Forget

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.198, Macmillan

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• The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, Nature, Stars

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• To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

  Joan Didion

  Running, Lying, Home

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 14, 2011

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• Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Running, Sweet, Prayer

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• With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Beautiful, Running, Garden

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• Once upon a time there were the Pampas in Argentina, that people could treat as "empty lands" and where they could run away from their problems from problem-ridden homes. That eventuality is no longer available.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Running, Home, Land

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Feet, Ancient

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.154, Random House

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• If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away

  Virginia Euwer Wolff

  Running, Matter, Facts

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• Where are you off to in such a hurry?” His stunning green eyes bore through me. “A corpse convention?” Even sweaty, Trevor was gorgeous. “What are you running away from?” I retorted. “Your mirror?

  Ellen Schreiber

  Running, Eye, Mirrors

  Ellen Schreiber (2010). “Love Bites”, p.18, Allen & Unwin

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• You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Dying, Doe

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• I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki

  Natsuki Takaya

  Running, Strong, Important

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• The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from lovesick gods. But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Dust, Practice

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

  Saul Bellow

  Running, Men, May

  1961 Herzog.

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• As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.

  Kim Harrison

  Running, Chasing, Faster

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• The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Islands, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.150, Random House

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• Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

  Stefan Zweig

  Running, Dark, Mind

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.27, Pushkin Press

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• What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?" "Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Running, What If, World

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• If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.

  Tanith Lee

  Running, Trying, Trouble

  Tanith Lee (2003). “The Claidi Collection”, Dutton Childrens Books

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