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Away Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew…
- Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb…
- Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called…
- Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as…
- In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
- History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the…
- The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away…
- The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves,…
- He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.
- I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old…
- For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn…
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