Running Away Quotes - Page 13

• He who fights and runs away
  May live to fight another day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running, Fighting, May

  Oliver Goldsmith (1900*). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The life of Oliver Goldsmith”

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• Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Running, Air, Yesterday

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• You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point, you are not practicing psychic development. You are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Running, Psychics

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• To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Desire

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• Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none.

  Monique Truong

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.

  Rashad Evans

  Running, Fighting, Hard Times

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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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• One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Giving, Turns

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.92, Stanford University Press

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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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• 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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• I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

  Chaka Khan

  Running, Taken, Successful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a man. Probably shouldn't have told you but you'll not worry any more if you know I'm in it than if you think I am. Have had the most strenuous work of my life, am very tired but otherwise absolutely in good condition physically mentally and morally.

  Harry S. Truman

  Running, Tired, Men

  Letter to Bess Wallace, September 8, 1918.

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• It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Girl, Friday, Running

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Country, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Running, People, Needs

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• One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.

  Rebecca West

  Running, Husband, Home

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.149, Open Road Media

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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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• It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain lights of their own, a number of them together will show complicated forms of social behavior.

  Norbert Wiener

  Running, Simple, Numbers

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.33, Da Capo Press

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• You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Running, Real, Lying

  Tatyana Tolstaya (2016). “The Slynx”, p.127, New York Review of Books

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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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• If I'm going to spunk £500 on a pair of designer shoes, it's going to be a pair that I can a) dance to 'Bad Romance' in and b) will allow me to run away from a murderer, should one suddenly decide to give chase.

  Caitlin Moran

  Running, Shoes, Giving

  "How To Be a Woman".

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• I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

  Tim Kaine

  Running, Stupid, Thinking

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• Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Beautiful, Running, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

  Curtis Jackson

  Running, Greatest Fear, People

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