Running Away Quotes - Page 12

• Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.

  Ellen Sussman

  Running, Order, Sometimes

  Ellen Sussman (2011). “French Lessons”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Running, Disappointment, Pumpkin

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• Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes.

  Earl Weaver

  Running, Mistake, Team

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• Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

  Sara Gruen

  Running, Circus, Guilty Conscience

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.310, Hachette UK

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• How many fluids should you take in daily?  That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time.  If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.

  Matt Stone

  Running, Needs, Answers

  Matt Stone (2014). “Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood and Your Relationship with Food”, p.53, Matt Stone

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• Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

  David Bowie

  Running, Writing, Doe

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.17, Melville House

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• A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Running, Wall, Support

  Finley Peter Dunne (2015). “Mr. Dooley Says”, p.74, The Floating Press

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• Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Running, Stars

  W. B. Yeats, “The Young Man's Song”

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• What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.

  Hilary Duff

  Inspirational, Running, Giving Up

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• I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far.

  Laurie Notaro

  Running, Saws, Enough

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• The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

  Ajahn Chah

  Running, Evil, Mind

  Achaan Chah, Ajahn Chah (2006). “A Taste of Freedom: Selected Dhamma Talks”, p.48, Buddhist Publication Society

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• If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.

  George Gamow

  Running, Distance, Science

  George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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• Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Running, New York, Paris

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• My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" that it's a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, "Aaaahhh," and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Animal, Texas

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• Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Running, Inspiration, Practice

  Kathleen McDonald (2011). “How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Responsibility, Play

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• At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

  Richard Dooling

  Running, Intelligent, Mad

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• He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Loneliness, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.387, Wordsworth Editions

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• We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Running, Darkness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.

  Diosdado Macapagal

  Running, Tables, Sat

  "World: Common Man's President". During campaign stops in 1961, Time, content.time.com. November 24, 1961.

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• You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

  Steve Perry

  Running, Losing, Embrace

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

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• I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move.

  Zola Budd

  Running, Moving, Fighting

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• But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

  Louise Penny

  Running, Comfort, Firsts

  Louise Penny (2013). “How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.118, Macmillan

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• Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Running, Regret, Drink

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