Away Quotes

18621 Away quotes by 8383 unique authors

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known… — Vanessa Paradis
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and… — Bertrand Russell
Three may keep counsel, if two be away. — John Heywood
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better… — Sonia Sotomayor
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. — Thomas Browne
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams
Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right… — Cesar Chavez
Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle. — Cesar Chavez
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the… — Anna Akhmatova
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away. — Joseph Wood Krutch
It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world. — Anne Roiphe
It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit. — William Dean Howells
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone… — P.G. Wodehouse
I don't understand why prostitution is illegal, Selling is legal, f***ing is legal. So why isn't it legal to sell f***ing? Why should it be… — George Carlin
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred… — Martial
Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my… — George Washington
God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the… — Ronald Reagan
...but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only… — Martin Luther
The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is never more than one thought away. — Ben Jonson
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner.… — George Sand
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it. — Robert Penn Warren
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned… — C.S. Lewis

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