Running Away Quotes - Page 7

• I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Daughter, Children

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

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• With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Letting Go, Running, Leaving

  Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.180, Penguin

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• HE was standing across the street, staring at her with a look of shock and dismay. One look in Oliver's eyes and she knew he knew. But how? How could he have known? The'd been so careful to keep their love a secret. The grief etched all over his face was too much to bear. Schuyler felt the words catch in her throat as she crossed the stree to stand in front of him. "Ollie...it's not..." Oliver shot her a look of pure hatred, turned on his heel and began to run away. "OLIVER, please,let me explain.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Running, Grief, Eye

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• And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you keep away from me then.' I'd like to, but how can I tell?' I asked. O.K., I'll wear a hat for a couple of days after my period starts. A red one. That should work,' she said with a laugh. 'If you see me on the street and I'm wearing a red hat, don't talk to me, just run away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Couple, Two

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• I feel like we've inherited modern infrastructure, and I could run away from it and become a full-time activist, or I can try to do my job, and try to talk about things I care about, and be able to do something like sponsor a topsoil conference in Nova Scotia, and talk about Bill McKibben, and narrate a documentary about the vanishing of the bees, and try to navigate my way through this world the best way possible. That's what I'm trying to figure out. Probably like many people right now.

  Ellen Page

  Running, People, Trying

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

  George Eliot

  Running, Hobbies, Literature

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.632, Wordsworth Editions

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• The idea of family is really one of the only things we can all say we have and we can't run away from. Whether you like your family or not. Whether it's complicated or not, there's something - call it spiritual, call it existential, whatever - that's in you.

  John Krasinski

  Running, Spiritual, Complicated

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl.

  Julianna Margulies

  Girl, Running, Real

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• Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

  Helen Mirren

  Running, Rest Of Your Life, Sometimes

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• The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Running, Quiet, Danger

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend I'll? be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun.

  Robbie Williams

  Daughter, Running, Fun

  "Williams used tour DVD to 'get laid'". www.breakingnews.ie. June 18, 2013.

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• If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Doe, Virtue

  "Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist".

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• He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

  Tacitus

  Running, Fighting, Battle

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• Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Enemy, Doe

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.18, Image

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• I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Running, Mistake, Party

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• There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Running, Witty, Problem

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• If I read something that's really intense and depressive, I will face it; I will try - but there's plenty of times I also run away. I think it's trying to find a balance between the positive and the negative. They don't exist without each other. It's the polarity; it's two sides of a coin. You can't get one without the other. I don't wallow. I can't stand it.

  Drew Barrymore

  Running, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Get yourself out. Be brave. Don't leave before you're ready, because you should know that you tried everything. So there's a conviction and a confidence when you step away from something that may or may not be conducive to your life. I think if you run away too quickly, you're going to have that "Oh God, did I try everything?" feeling. Try everything. Make it work. Do everything you can. If it's not working, then know when the signal is and move on. Change. Try something different.

  Drew Barrymore

  Running, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. 'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.' Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Running, Stars

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.52, William Butler Yeats

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• As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Running, Actors, Want

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• Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Discovery, Self

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• Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

  Mark Haddon

  Running, People, Literature

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• I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

  Mark Haddon

  Running, Writing, Gay

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Running, Children, Despair

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

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• In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Running, Flower, Silly

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