Running Away Quotes - Page 4

• I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Running, Mistake, Party

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• Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Suits You, Doe

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• I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Running, Children, Despair

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

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• Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the Rules allow him to make Jokes, he will excuse his behaviour in a variety of comical ways. Physically he is stunted and not at all handsome, although he usually dresses flamboyantly. He tends to wear hats with feathers in. You will discover he is very vain. But, if you can avoid smacking him, you will come to tolerate if not love him. He will contrive, in some cowardly way, to play a major part in saving the world.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Running, Men, Play

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• ‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.

  M.J. Rose

  Running, Oedipus, Predetermined

  M. J. Rose (2015). “The Reincarnationist”, p.95, MIRA

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• Nobody really knows her Except the chosen few Her secrets are kept hidden Behind that sun-kissed hue. If I reach out to touch her She’ll just run away My Forever and Always Will have to wait another day.

  Simone Elkeles

  Running, Waiting, Forever

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Running

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.180, St. Martin's Press

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• People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

  William Trevor

  Running, People, Said

  William Trevor (2009). “Love and Summer”, p.172, Penguin UK

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• She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house.

  Anne Ursu

  Running, Eye, Grandmother

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• A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

  Saul Bellow

  Running, Men, May

  1961 Herzog.

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• As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.

  Kim Harrison

  Running, Chasing, Faster

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• It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Cutting, Given

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 28, 2013

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• With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Beautiful, Running, Garden

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• Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Mother, Running, Bunnies

  Margaret Wise Brown (1972). “The Runaway Bunny”

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• The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, Nature, Stars

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• I got here when I was 12, I found out I was undocumented when I was 16, I became a journalist when I was 17, and all I ever did was write other stories to run away from myself.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Running, Writing, Journalist

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

  Shirley Jackson

  Running, Should, Walking

  Shirley Jackson (2009). “Just an Ordinary Day: Stories”, p.161, Bantam

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• What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?" "Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Running, What If, World

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• Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Pain, Thinking

  Henry Rollins (1990). “High Adventure in the Great Outdoors”, 2 13 61

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• You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Home, World

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• I'm still willing to continue living with the burden of this memory. Even though this is a painful memory, even though this memory makes my heart ache. Sometimes I almost want to ask God to let me forget this memory. But as long as I try to be strong and not run away, doing my best, there will finally be someday...there will be finally be someday I can overcome this painful memory. I believe I can. I believe I can do it. There is no memory that can be forgotten, there is not that kind of memory. Always in my heart.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Running, Strong, Memories

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• Inuyasha stomps on Miroku's foot and runs away laughing

  Rumiko Takahashi

  Running, Feet, Laughing

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• IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Running, Flying, Forget

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.198, Macmillan

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• But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt as high as the depthless night sky and deeper than she could know. She understood, suddenly and keenly, that she was too small to run away, and she sat on the damp ground and cried.

  Shannon Hale

  Running, Stars, Dark

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• We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Together, Band

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