Walking Away Quotes - Page 2

• President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland by walking away from our missile defense commitments, but is eager to give Russia's President Putin the flexibility he desires, after the election. Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone.

  Mitt Romney

  Loyalty, Commitment, Russia

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Winning, Cities, Water

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• Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

  William Bennett

  Children, Real, Mean

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• The only way that we may overcome the world is by coming unto Christ. And coming to Christ means walking away from the world.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mean, Overcoming, World

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• But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Sight, Broken, Humanity

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• Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.

  Brian Clough

  Taken, Should Have, People

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• The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best critic. If I can put something away and then come back, it's like taking a painting you're working on, turning it upside down, squinting at it, or walking away to get a new view. Time helps you know whether it's worth saving or whether it should be dumped.

  Karla Kuskin

  Views, Squinting, World

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• Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.

  Anneli Rufus

  Running, Mistake, I Don't Need You

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• I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.

  David Ortiz

  Sports, Games, People

  Associated Press, October 10, 2003.

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• Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down. Psychologically and emotionally, that isn't a low-cost course of action for most boys. You avoid a physical beating, but you pay a real social and psychological cost for it. Those moments of walking away from fights, even though I knew it was the rational and civilized thing to do, cost me tremendously.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Real, Fighting, Boys

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.

  Rick Riordan

  Nice, Rain, Thinking

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• There's not too many people that don't think I'm crazy, for walking away from so much money. I'm at a restaurant with my wife, it's a nice restaurant, we're eating dinner. I look across the room, I say, 'You see this guy over here, across the room? He has $100 million.' And we're eating the same entree. So, OK, fine, I don't have $50 million or whatever it was, but say I have $10 million in the bank. The difference in lifestyle is miniscule.

  Dave Chappelle

  Suicide, Crazy, Nice

  "Dave Chappelle Knows 'There's Not Too Many People That Don't Think I'm Crazy'" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 11, 2014.

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• Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, World, Opponents

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• So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

  Lindy Boggs

  Alaska, People, Grim

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• I believe in walking in the Spirit.

  David Wilkerson

  Believe, Journey, Hiking

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• I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.

  Marion Ross

  Faith, Home, World

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• I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.

  Robert Pattinson

  Kissing, Nuts, Knowing

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• I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

  Dick Wolf

  People, Car, Bored

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• Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Heart, Breathing, Body

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• I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Heaven, Hell, Reason

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• My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

  Andy Rooney

  Clothes, Wife, Funny Marriage

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• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  Wallace Stevens

  New York, Stupid, Mirrors

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

  Joan Severance

  Guy, Males, Stills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, People, What If

  "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You".

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• I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

  Charles Rangel

  Kitchen, Walking Out, Walking

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