Running Away Quotes - Page 18

• each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.

  Storm Jameson

  Running, Betrayed, Illness

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• I was the little kid growing up. I wasn't picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies.

  Robert Knepper

  Running, Growing Up, Kids

  "How Robert Knepper Makes Bad Look So Good". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. March 8, 2013.

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• I think a lot of people want to, at some point in their life, be someone else, run away and escape, in some way. We actors do get to do it. We have a job that allows for that. We have an outlet for it.

  Emily Blunt

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2013.

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• When things go really really bad - life is going to have its way with you no matter who you are - and when things get really really bad, that's the time to stand up and keep going, and to push, not to fall down or run away.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Running, Fall, Matter

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 3, 2014.

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• Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Character, Ideas

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.123, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Running, Blow, My Family

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Running, Country

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• After about midday my dad sent cars from his private collection for us. We were told to get in. We had almost lost contact with my father and brothers because things had got out of hand. I saw with my own eyes the [Iraqi] army withdrawing and the terrified faces of the Iraqi soldiers who, unfortunately, were running away and looking around them. Missiles were falling on my left and my right - they were not more than fifty or one hundred metres away. We moved in small cars. I had a gun between my feet just in case.

  Raghad Hussein

  Running, Brother, Dad

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• A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

  John Piper

  Running, Heart, Waiting

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• Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Animal, Rocks

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• My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Dear Ones, Leaving

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• It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away.

  Alexander Masters

  Running, Answers, Knows

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• God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Running, Light

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• It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Running, Woe

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Distance, Rain

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 21, 2016

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• In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Running, Lying, Talking

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• I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.

  Bill Hicks

  Christian, Running, Wish

  "Shock and Awe". Stand-up show, Live album, 2003.

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• Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Thinking, World

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• The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself. The only thing that counts is curiosity. For me personally, this is what creativity is about. It will express itself less in the fear of doing the same thing over again than in the desire not to go where one has already been.

  Gueorgui Pinkhassov

  Running, Lying, Creativity

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• I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

  John Howard

  Running, Government, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A man that runs away may fight again.

  Menander

  Running, War, Fighting

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• The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

  Edward Young

  Running, Home, Men

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.64

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• It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters.

  Katie Holmes

  Running, Strong, Nice

  "Actress Katie Holmes Experiences Dread in Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark & Talks About It". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Men, Skeletons

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• If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.

  Andrew Klavan

  Running, Government, Hands

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