Going Away Quotes - Page 22

• The little things that you saw with a child’s eye and that will never go away. That’s what consciousness is all about.

  Derek Mahon

  Children, Eye, Littles

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• So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

  Marc Newson

  Design, Stills, Ifs

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• You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind. Women who want children are this way. Artists are this way about pictures. It doesn't go away. You may forget for a few months but then it's back, the unfinished pieces of what you want.

  Deb Olin Unferth

  Children, Artist, Want Something

  Deb Olin Unferth (2010). “Vacation”, p.99, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It’s like fashion, like everything’s already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can’t get a diagnosis for.

  Mary Roach

  Fashion, Crazy, People

  "Why “Asshole” Is High Praise - and Other Anatomy Lessons With Mary Roach". Interview with Sarah Zhang, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2013.

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• If you're going to run for president as the anti-Clinton, you should know that Democrats and their media friends will do whatever it takes to make you look Clintonian... The questions won't go away because Democrats are desperate to define Republican deviancy down to Clinton levels. The ugliness is just getting started.

  Paul Gigot

  Running, Media, President

  "Snow Job: Bush Tries Not to Inhale". www.wsj.com. August 20, 1999.

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• The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

  Andre Gide

  Memorable, People, Listening

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• It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Real, Bows

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• There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Kind, Sometimes

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• I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Wish, Radicalism, Taste

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• People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, People, One Day

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• I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Thinking, Important

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• Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

  Lee Iacocca

  Thinking, Pay, Suits

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• I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

  Johnny Vegas

  Wikipedia, Use, Journalist

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• I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

  Michael Nesmith

  Ideas, Fixed, Feels

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.

  Sean Parker

  Thinking, Imagine, Utility

  "Sean Parker ‘Bored’ By Facebook — And It Seems He’s Not The Only One" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

  Stephen Levine

  Pain, Praying, Sometimes

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• [Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Intelligent, Thinking, Use

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• They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.

  Ben Harper

  Taken, Sadness, Yesterday

  Song: Walk Away

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• Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Children, Never Quit, Mines

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• All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

  Ray Davies

  Life, Relax, Feels

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.205, The Overlook Press

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• It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.

  Garth Brooks

  Running, Adages

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• I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.

  Puff Daddy

  Beach, Taken, Thinking

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• Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

  Jean Harris

  Winning, Bachelors, Situation

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• The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.

  Donald Luskin

  Empowering, Needs, Information

  "OpenFund closes its doors". www.cnn.com. August 2, 2001.

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• The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

  Victoria Moran

  Ideas, Debt, Fantasy

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