Top 100 Quotes About Not Running Away
#1. I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.
Joseph Heller
#2. Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.
John Connolly
#3. Love is not running away or giving up, it is standing and fighting for every moment.
M.F. Moonzajer
#4. It's not running away when you're going back home.
Paul Acampora
#5. Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.
Irvine Welsh
#6. Don't run away. Im not running away. Im already gone. -Lena and Ethan
Kami Garcia
#8. I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.
Ricky Schroder
#9. I'd cry," I said, turning back to look him right in the face. "I'd be devastated. But I'm not running away anymore. No matter what happens, we can face it together. No matter what. I promise.
Priscilla West
#10. But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.
Francesca Lia Block
#11. Life is for running at full on, not running away from with a whimper ...
John J. Ainsworth
#12. I watched my beautiful sister running ... and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.
Alice Sebold
#13. Meditation is a silent way of looking at resistance. You're not running away from it
you're sitting with the resistance ... basically you're trying to follow the resistance. And I think that's very interesting.
Rodney Yee
#14. It's not running away if you're running toward something.
Nina Lane
#15. I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.
Lisa Kleypas
#16. Well, I'm not running away from home, I'm running away to home." "Oh,
Sara Pennypacker
#17. I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state. I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.
John Mellencamp
#18. I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
John Howard
#19. How far will you run, before you realize you're not running away from me? You're running to me.
Joey W. Hill
#20. I had not meant to leave them; i had only meant to leave. i wasnt running away from them; i was only running away
Jodi Picoult
#21. How'd you get through yesterday, though?"
"Running away, you, sarcasm, violence, and last but not least, tequila.
Kylie Scott
#22. Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.
Glenda Millard
#23. Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.
Justine Larbalestier
#24. The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.
Dick Morris
#25. Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The trick is to enjoy what you have while you have it. Not run like a bunny from the good things because they might be taken away sooner than you'd like.
Lynsay Sands
#26. And now I just keep running. Maybe not physically anymore, but my mind and heart are backpacking through the darkest corners of the world trying to get farther and farther away.
Nyrae Dawn
#27. I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group who would run away very fast if they saw me coming, for exactly the same reason. Reading is individual, and not all tastes are alike.
Margaret Atwood
#28. Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.
Malcolm Gladwell
#29. In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.
Seth Godin
#30. I keep exercising even when the days are much shorter. Not only is this a great stress reliever for me to get in a nice run, but it's also my 'me time' when I can just get away from all the holiday season obligations.
David Niu
#31. Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.
John P. Kotter
#32. Silence ... leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ... Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.
Madeleine Delbrel
#33. And Winnie, laughing at him, lost the last of her alarm. They were friends, her friends. She was running away after all, but she was not alone. Closing
Natalie Babbitt
#34. There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
Major Owens
#35. Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop - to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.
Nhat Hanh
#36. I try to tell the kids, Im not trying to run away from where I came from,
Marshall Faulk
#37. Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about.
Pete Townshend
#38. I don't try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as it goes over the fence, it's a home run. When you swing hard, it takes a little bit of recognition away from you. The power you're trying to increase - you're not all the way through it with your vision.
David Ortiz
#39. Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger ... Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.
Frederick Lenz
#41. I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.
Sarah Dessen
#42. We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.
Pittacus Lore
#43. Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
John W. Gardner
#44. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.
David Foster Wallace
#45. Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.
Cate Blanchett
#46. That's the problem with running away, said the little voice. No matter where you go, you have to take yourself with you; and if yourself is constitutionally incapable of leaving well enough alone and not worrying if the rest of the world is weirder than ferret ragout, where the hell is the point?
Tom Holt
#47. Now that I could not go back I was not sure, after all, that I wished to go forward. It was a miserable sensation.
Anna Freeman
#48. When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not want to remember what has happened to me. I do not want to reflect on the past. I can't in a way. I'm not made for regrets.
Carrie Snyder
#50. I'm homeless. I've taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It's not where love is unconditional.
When I look up and realize I haven't run away in a long time, I'll know I'm home.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#51. My one goal when I started was not to actually vomit on TV or run away.
Kate McKinnon
#52. I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.
Diosdado Macapagal
#53. If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race.
Gerry Lindgren
#54. What is it with you and running away from me?" he asked quizzically, slinging an arm over my shoulder.
"Maybe you're hideous, and I can't stand the sight of your face," I offered casually.
He looked thoughtful. "Mmm, no, that's not it.
Temple West
#55. We can not run away from our youth. We have to put them in the lead
Michel Sidibe
#56. You need to be careful of people who tell you that adventure exists at the next turn--because it turns out that they are not really walking into a story, but running away from a history that chases them throughout time.
Christopher Herz
#57. Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life ...
Carl Jung
#58. When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily
in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides.
Deborah Tannen
#59. Choices are our choices so I am not taking away anyone's personal choice, but we run into difficulty when we're having choices made for us rather than making our own.
Robert Moss
#60. The lowlights ... Sometimes you're away from home quite a lot, which can be difficult. It's not first class all the way, you don't stay in exotic hotels and have people running after you.
Jill Douglas
#61. Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.
Joan D. Chittister
#62. What brings you here, Kit? No wish to offend you, but not quite the thing, you know!'
Her lip trembled. She replied with a catch in her voice: 'I am running away!'
'Oh, running away!' said Mr Standen, satisfied.
Georgette Heyer
#63. During that year by the railroad embankment, at the time of my father's complete disaster, distance meant for us not only some faraway lyrical splendor but also the exceedingly utilitarian idea of running away, the deliverance from fear and hunger.
Danilo Kis
#64. Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
Pema Chodron
#65. The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.
Gueorgui Pinkhassov
#66. There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters.
Rod Dreher
#67. Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.
Nancy Kerrigan
#68. With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.
Jodi Picoult
#69. I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed. I'm happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from. I feel like I have a history and a story. That's what I am and that's what I'll always be from. I was never running away from it.
Katy Perry
#70. Never run away with the idea that it doesn't matter much what we believe or think; it does. What we believe and think, we are; not what we say we believe and think, but what we really do believe and think, we are; there is no divorce at all.
Oswald Chambers
#71. Having spent all that time getting away from South Africa, running away from the army, I wanted very much to believe that America and England were actually as free as they were meant to be, not slipping rapidly into becoming police states like the one I'd just left.
Richard Stanley
#72. We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.
Richard L. Evans
#73. The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.
Tony Kushner
#74. I learn to
love the thing that has to be erased,
the thing I may not be allowed to keep,
sand that runs away beneath my running feet.
Imtiaz Dharker
#75. The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.
Neal A. Maxwell
#76. I hope that my feet will carry me to a place where binding memories don't exist, where I can be free of my past. But then again, running away, or wanting to escape, won't solve a thing. It's not my past that holds me prisoner. It's my fucking heart.
Mia Asher
#77. You're all so glued to your phones, tablets, and computers that life isn't even running away from you at this point; it's strolling, taking its own sweet time because it knows damn well you're not going to pull your nose out of your Facebook page long enough to realize it's already gone.
Corey Taylor
#78. You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point, you are not practicing psychic development. You are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak.
Frederick Lenz
#79. 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, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#80. "Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.
Satish Kumar
#81. And where are you going?"
"I dunno," said the Spangled Boy. "I'm running from, not to."
Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 5.
E. Nesbit
#82. Doing the long endurance stuff seems to have given me the strength to sustain the speed. I think my body is just a lot stronger (thanks to the marathon) ... By increasing the long runs, I found that does not take anything away from the speed but increases the strength on the track.
Paula Radcliffe
#83. I'm always looking for vacation. I'm always trying to step away from it to watch movies. I'm always trying to carve out free time for myself. But, I love it. I don't think I've ever not wanted to run a show. When I have a show, I'm always really excited. I always enjoy the process.
Ronald D. Moore
#84. I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
Ben Elton
#86. Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I'd get rid of the guns. Nothing more dangerous to the life of a child than a house full of firearms. Nothing more dangerous except maybe a parent.
Charlie Huston
#87. Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.
Haruki Murakami
#89. If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.
Robin Gibb
#90. Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.
Rollo May
#91. The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced with more than he can bear. Whether or not we can grin, we must bear it, and it is folly to attempt to run away.
Christmas Humphreys
#92. What do I have left after running away from believing? I've come to think that even if I believe in people and get hurt it is much better than regretting not doing so.
Hotaru Odagiri
#93. My steps feel lighter now and I realize it's because I'm running toward something, and not away from it.
Clare Mackintosh
#94. Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred.
But here is not a question of what's sacred;
Rather of what to face or run away from.
I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
Robert Frost
#95. I forced myself not to run to the train station, because running away in front of the same guy twice in one day was beyond the acceptable level of weirdness. Even for me.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#97. Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.
Mark Batterson
#98. As long as you continue to run away from the world, I will not be able to show you your luminosity.
Frederick Lenz
#99. It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.
Nicole Kidman
#100. Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
Bernhard Schlink
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