Away From Quotes

#1. I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

Natalie Portman

#2. Why don't you like Noel Kahn?" Mike's voice made Aria jump. He stood a few feet away from Aria with a carton of orange juice in his hand."He's the man."
Aria groaned. "If you like him so much why don't you go out with him?

Sara Shepard

#3. I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. Perhaps I am better prepared to create a certain amount of integrity in the character because I know so much about the parts of those universes. So perhaps it goes hand in hand, and I don't shy away from it certainly. I think I have a great facility for it, so it seems to work.

Phil Morris

#5. I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on 'Glee' anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.

Dean Cain

#6. The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.

Frederick Lenz

#7. You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it.

Nicholas Sparks

#8. Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

Matt Damon

#9. Nazism and use the alliance among Fascists to steer the Nazis away from the racial policies.

Tom Reiss

#10. I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche and then applies an antibiotic cream. You gotta keep it away from your eyes.

Stephen Colbert

#11. No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

Eric Sevareid

#12. I'm saying that I can wait. For now. But when things get back to normal - assuming that ever happens - I want my shot. We can make each other happy, Faythe. I know it. And I'm done walking away from things I want just because they don't come easily. You're worth the work.

Rachel Vincent

#13. A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers.
Kestrel looked away from Arin.
She swore to herself that she would never look back

Marie Rutkoski

#14. There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Ajahn Chah

#15. It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.

Jon McGregor

#16. Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.

Sonia Choquette

#17. How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

Libba Bray

#18. Wellsie frowned. "I'd like you to stay away from him, okay? He's ... not right in a lot of ways. Do you know what I mean?"
Actually, John wasn't so sure about that. Yeah, the guy was enough to make you think fondly of the boogeyman sometimes, but clearly he wasn't all bad.

J.R. Ward

#19. Got a pair just like those. Never seen 'em lookin' like that though." "Like what?" Sauntering away from her, I smirked. "Sexy as fuck.

Lola Stark

#20. Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

Cyndi Lauper

#21. I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life.
You are a second away from saying it.
You have no idea how much I love you.

David Levithan

#22. Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. I was running away from dating for the sake of running because I had gotten all too used to being on my own and not having to deal with anyone else's crap, be it good crap or bad crap.

Stephanie Celeste Perkins

#24. There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Winston Churchill

#25. I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

Jim Butcher

#26. The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources ... The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.

David Deming

#27. Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#28. She took a sip from her water glass and marveled at how you could sit so close to someone and still have him be totally far away from you.

J.R. Ward

#29. The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Christopher Hitchens

#30. I don't want to be here. I missed my dream world where everything was sunshine and smiles, away from whatever memories snarled on the out skirts of comprehension.
I want to forget ... just for a little longer.

Pepper Winters

#31. You don't have to enjoy life, you simply have to do the best you can at it. Because every day you wake up and see yourself in the mirror, and that reflection is something you can never get away from. Not ever.

Gwen Hunter

#32. All those who call you to themselves draw you away from yourself.

Seneca.

#33. I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

Andre Balazs

#34. I can't say I agree with something that takes the focus away from me.

Zach Braff

#35. Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

#36. The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement
but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

#37. I've stayed away from doing 'urban film' because I just don't relate to the characters. I'm not going to take a role because I happen to have the same skin color.

Zoe Kravitz

#38. I had trouble finding my next goal after winning a gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics, but the interest of the public and my fans in me got even bigger. I wanted to get away from the pressure, even for a single day.

Kim Yuna

#39. Made me more aware of how we should always guard our tongues and never walk away from those we love in anger. Life lesson learned.

Lora Ann

#40. He lost himself a thousand times and for days one end he dwelt in nonbeing. But although the paths took him away from self, in the end they always led back to it

Hermann Hesse

#41. I've been losing me for a while
my reflection appears partial
as I often feel less than I've been
and further away from the person
I'd like to be.

R H Sin

#42. Nothing comes easy, but as long as you're breathing, you're always one breath away from making your dreams a reality. Make every breath count.

Kai Greene

#43. I never smiled much." His voice was a low purr in the shadows.
"Don't be silly," she replied, taking a step closer to the next portrait
and farther away from him. "You smile all the time."
"At you," he conceded, "with you, because of you.

Olivia Parker

#44. Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.

Neil Gaiman

#45. I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

Elisha Cuthbert

#46. And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.

Robin Hobb

#47. I kissed him for a long, long while. My hands wrapped on either side of his face pinned him and wouldn't let him pull away. I didn't want Kabe to ever pull away from me. Let the mountains fall and the stars burn out, I'd never let him go.

James Buchanan

#48. While other children had backed away from white vans, I'd looked at them with longing. I wanted to be special enough to be taken. I wanted to matter that much. "Just

Skye Warren

#49. Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.

Johnny Carson

#50. You know how I feel about you constantly running away from your problems. It's not healthy. And they always catch up to you sooner or later.

Monica Murphy

#51. There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

George Eliot

#52. It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Kenneth Clarke

#53. our architects need to shift their thinking away from creating the perfect end product, and instead focus on helping create a framework in which the right systems can emerge, and continue to grow as we learn more.

Sam Newman

#54. The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it,

Max Reinhardt

#55. Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Ralph Marston

#56. I can almost feel the wind beneath my wings; I can almost taste the thrill of flying away from this small town and never looking back.

Tessa Emily Hall

#57. Everything that I had in the past has been blown away from the images of tomorrow

This lost little boy has become a lost grown man

Austin V. Songer

#58. I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.

Cynthia Kenyon

#59. Do you miss Susie?"
Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt.
"More than anyone will ever know.

Alice Sebold

#60. The secret passages of life are simply magnificent! You can continue walking without being noticed, far away from all the perils!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#61. If I have free time I try and stay away from working at all. I work so much that I savour every second that I have free and I try not to draw at all. You'll never see me draw when I'm having a coffee or something.

Marko Djurdjevic

#62. The sea is whipping the skyThe sky is whipping the seaYou can hide away forever from the stormBut you'll never hide away from me.

Jim Steinman

#63. People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from it. I think you can absolutely do that. It's more about hair colour and complexion.

Kate Walsh

#64. Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.

Kevin Wilson

#65. Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you ... they're a little away from you.

Barry Hannah

#66. When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

Pat Conroy

#67. Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.

Pope Pius IX

#68. I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

Ian McKellen

#69. How could someone make decision after decision attempting to get away from their past and somehow end up right back where they were started?

Nicole Jacquelyn

#70. The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

Rick Santorum

#71. It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#72. I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.

Bill Cosby

#73. Lily gave me a nod and a smile. "I wish I could be more like you. You're so confident in who you are."
I had to look away from her eyes full of admiration. "I don't know who I am, Lily. I'm just really good at pretending.

Nicole Williams

#74. Sometimes a decade arrives when nations have the chance to turn away from bigotry and selfishness and turn to their countrymen and women and embrace them as loved members of the human family. But do we have the ticker for it?

Bruce Pascoe

#75. Death is an opportunity to shed all guilt; to step away from the dogma and contrivances of mankind; and to finally be unbound from all hindrances to knowledge.

Duane Hewitt

#76. Sometimes something being taken away from you is exactly what you need to take a look at yourself.

Ellen DeGeneres

#77. When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can't just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you're ready for it.

Colleen Hoover

#78. At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

Michael Dirda

#79. People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

Cesar Romero

#80. Every piece of the globe has been conquered at least a handful of times." "And the conquerors promptly forgot that they stole it from someone else so that they could claim some sort of moral right to the land when someone else tried to take it away from them," I suggested.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#81. It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

Bertrand Russell

#82. I do understand that," said Cinder, her tone heavy as she pulled her gaze away from Jacin, meeting each of the others' in turn. "If we succeed, we'll be starting a war.

Marissa Meyer

#83. Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.

Marvin Hagler

#84. Stoners just got a powerful new ally in the fight to legalize marijuana - conservative broadcaster Pat Robertson. He said it's time to 'you know, legalize it, tax it, and keep it away from Mel Gibson.'

Craig Ferguson

#85. Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#86. I have to force myself to look away from those irresistible dimples; they unleash the desire between my legs.

Emily Rose Philips

#87. I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff that doesn't stick, goes away. The stuff that propels you forward, you can see it in your partner's eyes.

Zal Batmanglij

#88. Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.

Yao Ming

#89. She was the only person in class who read her poem like it wasn't an assignment. She recited it like it was a living thing. Like something she was letting out. You couldn't look away from her as long as she was talking.

Rainbow Rowell

#90. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.

Bruce Willis

#91. One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from ... me.

Jenny Lawson

#92. We were walking away from the car together when Margo reached down for my hand,laced her fingers in mine,and squeezed.I squeezed back and then glanced at her.She nodded her head solemnly,and I nodded back,and then she let go of my hand.

John Green

#93. Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#94. You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.

David Eddings

#95. Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#96. We are not far away from the point of no return when it comes to life on earth, and we have some radical choices to make.

Jeff Corwin

#97. I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

Randy Bachman

#98. And when one of her girlfriends asked why she loved him she answered that most men ran away from an inferno. But men like Ove ran into it.

Fredrik Backman

#99. When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted away from my faith. Its amazing ... as successful as I was as an actor, and the money and the fame, there was still something missing.

Chuck Norris

#100. Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.

Paullina Simons