Runaway Quotes - Page 2

• My life had taken a stranger turn than I could've ever imagined. What was I doing on this path? Where was I headed really? Who was I to take on a battle between powers I didn't understand— armed with a runaway cat, a uniquely bad drummer, a pair of garden shears, and an Ovaltine-drinking teen Galileo? To save a girl who didn't want to be saved?

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Taken, Drinking

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• I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.

  Steven Spielberg

  Decision, Half, Example

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• You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.

  Dermot O'Leary

  Good Luck, Brilliant, Conductor

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2015

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• Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!

  Kay Arthur

  Running, Epidemics, Self

  Kay Arthur (2004). “God, How Can I Live?”, p.111, Harvest House Publishers

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• The Apple iPad is not going to be the company's next runaway best seller. Not if the industry can help it... With the iPad, Apple may have irked it's somewhat new partner Intel Corp. Intel gets spanked by nobody.

  John C. Dvorak

  Apples, Ipads, May

  "The iPad faces industry backlash". www.marketwatch.com. February 12, 2010.

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• President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

  Peter Fenn

  Usa, President, Problem

  "The tyranny of the minority" by Peter Fenn, www.politico.com. March 19, 2009.

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• Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community - for example, another country or historical period... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.

  Richard Rorty

  Country, Wall, Moving

  "Objectivity, Relativism and Truth (Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism)". Book by Richard Rorty (p. 197), 1991.

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• Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer -
  Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

  Manohla Dargis

  Independent, Wife, Dancer

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• Kaka beat Fletcher to the ball, and headed it past Heinze as the Argentine sought to close him down. Heinze could still have dealt with the problem, but, inexplicably, Patrice Evra came flying in like a runaway TGV. Heinze was flattened, Fletcher was so shocked that he stopped to rubber-neck, and Kaka strolled on and rolled the ball past Van der Sar. Evra's nightmare of a half continued when he crazily got himself cautioned for dissent, so removing Ferguson's one remaining first-choice defender from the away leg. Madness.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Past

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• I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Girl, New York, Artist

  "My art is a form of restoration". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

  Thomas Sowell

  Civilization, People, Pay

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• The time will come, and probably during 2009, that the only way the U.S. will be able to fund its deficits is to create money by printing it. The Treasury will have to sell bonds, and, in the absence of foreign buyers, the Fed will have to print the money to buy them. The consequence will be runaway inflation, increasing interest rates, recession, and inevitable tax increases on all Americans.

  Doug Casey

  Able, Way, Absence

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• At some point the Japanese, Chinese and Saudi buyers of US and European Government bonds will see just what miserable value they offer. Then governments may have to stop all the runaway spending and bailouts and even put up interest rates.

  Luke Johnson

  Government, Chinese, May

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• If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Should Have, Republic

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• From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

  Tom Robbins

  Horse, Ice Cream, Looks

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• You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

  Paul Krugman

  Example, Old Fashioned, Inflation

  "Why Paul Krugman thinks inflation fears are baloney". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2014.

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• People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

  Paul Krugman

  Years, People, Complaining

  "Why Paul Krugman thinks inflation fears are baloney". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2014.

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• Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.

  Steven Spielberg

  Ideas, Race, Feelings

  "Steven Spielberg Talks His Holiday Double Features to Newsweek" by nne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2011.

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• If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ocean, Air, Atmosphere

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• No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

  Terence McKenna

  Dark, Night, Interesting

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• Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe

  Gary Snyder

  Rushing, Style, Today

  Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when you’re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situation…you just want to breathe again.

  Buck 65

  Giving, Water, Choices

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• We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Numbers, Justice, This Generation

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• The seeds of today's runaway government were planted when it was decided that government should help those who can't help themselves. From that modest, compassionate beginning to today's out-of-control mega-state, there's a straight, unbroken line. Once the door was open, once it was settled that the government should help some people at the expense of others, there was no stopping it.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Doors, People

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