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Away Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere…
- People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils…
- When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?
- Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.
- 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.
- [Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see…
- On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying…
- In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten…
- For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their…
- Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give…
- Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius