Running Away Quotes

567 Running Away quotes by 443 unique authors

One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course. — E. M. Forster
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University,… — Evelyn Waugh
I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that… — Chaka Khan
Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people. — Joe Frazier
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. — Thomas Fuller
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just go up to somebody on the street and say 'You're it!' and then run away. — Ellen DeGeneres
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep… — Denis Diderot
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. — Phyllis Diller
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. — George Eliot
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants… — Ralph Fiennes
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in… — Mark Haddon
I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You… — Mark Haddon
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. — Dag Hammarskjold
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of… — Nhat Hanh
You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think,… — Keira Knightley
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. — Abraham Lincoln
I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl. — Julianna Margulies
In love, the one who runs away is the winner. — Henri Matisse
Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well,… — Helen Mirren
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. — Jawaharlal Nehru
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true… — Henri Nouwen
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't… — Ann Richards

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