Running Away Quotes - Page 25

• Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

  Alan Watts

  Running, Pain, Fighting

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good. He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much. He runs away when we make the Sign of the Cross.

  Anthony of Padua

  Running, Jesus, Humble

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• It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence. . . Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then?

  John W. Campbell

  Running, Ignorance, Men

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• In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Fall, Anxiety

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• My one goal when I started was not to actually vomit on TV or run away.

  Kate McKinnon

  Inspirational, Running, Goal

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• She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Running, Looks, Cows

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.327, Open Road Media

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• The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

  Leonard Read

  Running, People, Liberty

  Leonard E. Read (1990). “The freedom philosophy”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• "You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

  Ernest Gaines

  Running, Dying, Said

  Ernest J. Gaines (2015). “A Lesson Before Dying”, p.123, Serpent's Tail

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• Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Wise, Running

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• Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.

  Joy Hester

  Running, Wisdom, White

  Joy Hester, Sunday Reed (1997). “Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed”

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• Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt, but they took no notice. I pulled out my revolver and very nearly shot at them, but I thought it wouldn't do any good, as they all had their backs to me so would have thought that anyone hit was hit by a German bullet. If I ran after them my men might think I was running away. So I took my men on!

  William St Leger

  Running, War, Men

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• If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might be unstable and run away. We could end up like Venus, covered in clouds and with the surface temperature of 400 degrees. It could be too late if we wait until the bad effects of warming become obvious. We need action now to reduce emission of carbon dioxide.

  Stephen Hawking

  Running, Clouds, Waiting

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• I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away.

  Etty Hillesum

  Inspirational, Running, Struggle

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.63, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Beware of the flight of Blessings,
  For nothing that runs away is returned.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Running, Wisdom, Islamic

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• Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. Tact is an active quality t hat is not exercised by merely making a dash for cover. Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.

  Frank Medlicott

  Running, Mistake, Reality

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• Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Fear, Adventure

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• We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability.

  Michel Sidibe

  Running, Sex, People

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• And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.

  Takashi Miike

  Running, Thinking, Trying

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.

  Laura Bush

  Running, Children, Sleep

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

  Annie Oakley

  Mother, Running, School

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• If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Running, Years, Jail

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.25, Prestwick House Inc

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• A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Running, Dog, Mad

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

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• Influence people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

  Marc Ribot

  Running, Thinking, Europe

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• ...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or a chef or a nurse. But the poor writer - the sci-fi one especially - is seen as running away. Bollocks. This is real, for me, and it's tough, it's fun, it's practical, and it's very, very important.

  Russell T Davies

  Running, Fun, Real

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• But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

  Goldwin Smith

  Running, Hype, Mind

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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