Running Away Quotes - Page 9

• Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Suits You, Doe

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• I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

  Frederick Busch

  Running, Teaching, Reading

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay

  Madonna Ciccone

  Running, Smart, Ifs

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• Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Thinking, Reins

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

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• Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the Rules allow him to make Jokes, he will excuse his behaviour in a variety of comical ways. Physically he is stunted and not at all handsome, although he usually dresses flamboyantly. He tends to wear hats with feathers in. You will discover he is very vain. But, if you can avoid smacking him, you will come to tolerate if not love him. He will contrive, in some cowardly way, to play a major part in saving the world.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Running, Men, Play

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• I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Running, People, Different

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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• a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Running, Dresses, Gowns

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• Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Fall, Sleep

  "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

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• We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Together, Band

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• Inuyasha stomps on Miroku's foot and runs away laughing

  Rumiko Takahashi

  Running, Feet, Laughing

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• Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

  Shirley Jackson

  Running, Should, Walking

  Shirley Jackson (2009). “Just an Ordinary Day: Stories”, p.161, Bantam

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• Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Pain, Thinking

  Henry Rollins (1990). “High Adventure in the Great Outdoors”, 2 13 61

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• I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

  Alice Sebold

  Beautiful, Running, Eight

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm still willing to continue living with the burden of this memory. Even though this is a painful memory, even though this memory makes my heart ache. Sometimes I almost want to ask God to let me forget this memory. But as long as I try to be strong and not run away, doing my best, there will finally be someday...there will be finally be someday I can overcome this painful memory. I believe I can. I believe I can do it. There is no memory that can be forgotten, there is not that kind of memory. Always in my heart.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Running, Strong, Memories

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• But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt as high as the depthless night sky and deeper than she could know. She understood, suddenly and keenly, that she was too small to run away, and she sat on the damp ground and cried.

  Shannon Hale

  Running, Stars, Dark

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• I think some love you can stand to let go of because it's ultimately for the best, but other types you have to stick with until the day you die even when it's hard.You have to think about that before you run away from wherever you are. And then when you know, you either stay or you go and pray thatyou're making the right decision.

  Nick Burd

  Letting Go, Running, Love You

  Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.201, Penguin

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• Dogs are quick to show their affection. They never pout, they never bear a grudge. They never run away from home when mistreated. They never complain about their food. They never gripe about the way the house is kept. They are chivalrous and courageous, ready to protect their mistress at the risk of their lives. They love children, and no matter how noisy and boisterous they are, the dog loves every minute of it. In fact, a dog is still competition for a husband. Perhaps if we husbands imitated a few of our dog's virtues, life with our family might be more amiable.

  Billy Graham

  Running, Dog, Children

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• Elizabeth’s hands flew to her mouth; tears filled her eyes with happiness as she realized he was fulfilling yet another of her and her mother’s intended activities. “Why are you fulfilling all of my mother’s dreams?” she asked, studying his face and searching for answers. “So you don’t run away like she did in search of them,” he replied, taking her hand. “Come on, join in!” he said, leaping around.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Mother, Running, Dream

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.

  Mary Karr

  Family, Running, Teenager

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.54, Penguin

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• Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  George Eliot

  Running, Time, Travel

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

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• You can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag - lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack.

  Mary McMullen

  Running, Travel, Lying

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• When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong—close to his heart.

  Sally Lloyd-Jones

  Running, Heart

  Sally Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing”, p.23, Zonderkidz

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• Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Broken, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Symbols of transformation: an analysis of the prelude to a case of schizophrenia”

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• He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day and looks like a pussy today.

  Tank Abbott

  Running, Fighting, Mma

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