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Away Quotes by Mark Twain
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
- If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
- Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
- Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
- A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste…
- It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter…
- Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the…
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost…
- The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you…
- Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human…
- The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves…
- There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away…
- Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and…
- My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
- I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that…
- Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one…
- A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
- Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too,…
- When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors…
- The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
- Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real…
- Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where…
- But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to…
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