Top 100 Quotes About Run Away
#1. Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#2. I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.
Leslie Mann
#3. I have a habit of letting my imagination run away from me. It always comes back though ... drenched with possibilities.
Valaida Fullwood
#4. To escape him she had run away to the end of the world. To be free of him she had run away to places where he never went.
Anais Nin
#5. Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn't mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.
Hilary Duff
#7. A desperate longing stopped her breath, as if he'd jumped already, leaving her behind. "Please," he said. She took his hand and stepped beside him. She should have run away with him as soon as she could. Maybe every act of faith, as they got older, was meant to make up for an earlier lack of faith.
Matthew Salesses
#9. Do not pamper me, human. Elves train both their men and women to fight. I am not one of your helpless females to run away whenever there is danger.
Christopher Paolini
#10. It's not possible to run away from yourself. Unless, of course, you're schizophrenic and can take holidays outside your mind.
Fennel Hudson
#11. I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong.-Yuki
Natsuki Takaya
#12. Follow those who follow something bigger than themselves - an idea, a belief, a vision, a cause. Run away from those who say we need to follow them.
Simon Sinek
#13. I can't always be afraid and run away from everything. I have to face my fears, just like I'm doing today.
Emily Wang
#14. She told herself a story about a daughter in a family so hungry for a daughter that it would have eaten her alive if she hadn't run away.
Jonathan Franzen
#15. as her mother promised to teach them everything a young lady needed to keep a house. As if, Marilyn thought, it might run away when you weren't looking.
Celeste Ng
#16. You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.
Neil Gaiman
#17. When you are broken, you run. But you don't always run away. Sometimes, helplessly, you run towards.
Helen Macdonald
#18. ... I kept trying to run away. And I almost did. But it seems that reality compels you to live properly when you live in the real world.
Kenzaburo Oe
#19. Sweetheart, Is today the day you run away alone in fear? Or the day you have the balls to trust in our friendship? Trust in the four of us. Together
Scarlett Dawn
#20. I'd like to run away
From you,
But if you didn't come
And find me ...
I would die.
Shirley Bassey
#21. I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.
John Adams
#22. Part of me wanted to run away from him screaming, Fire! A more reckless part was tempted to see how close I could get without ... combusting.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#23. We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
James Carville
#24. Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.
Bruce Lee
#25. No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!
Charles M. Schulz
#26. Hell no. Absolutely not. I am a Skotos. We are to be feared. We never back down or run away from anything. Ever.
S.L. Jennings
#28. Regret is something you've got to just live with, you can't drink it away. You can't run away from it. You can't trick yourself out of it. You've just got to own it.
Anthony Bourdain
#29. You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you.
You got to fight them for yourself.
I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
Alice Walker
#30. Don't run away from it, just because it's difficult.
Harriet Evans
#31. Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston S. Churchill
#32. The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren't the lords of the earth.
Cynthia Ozick
#33. Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#34. No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.
Ravi Zacharias
#35. As long as you want the belt, don't run away from the fight. Do what it takes to win the battles you face.
Israelmore Ayivor
#36. Lost dog. Looks like a chicken. If found, do not attempt to feed it scrambled eggs for breakfast. You'll offend it just like I did, and it will run away.
Jarod Kintz
#38. The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
Edward Young
#39. She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#40. True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.
Plato
#41. To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel De Cervantes
#42. Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Those who simply run away from sin are half-Christians. Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what's wrong. We're called to chase lions.
Mark Batterson
#43. The more Discovery Channel you watch, the less chance you have of ever meeting a woman. Because it fills your head with odd facts that can come out at any moment. "Hello. Did you know Hitler was ticklish? That sea otters have four nipples? Wait - don't run away!"
Dave Attell
#44. Destiny lies beyond the mountains. Whether you fulfil it or run away once again, is up to you.
Amish Tripathi
#45. One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Winston S. Churchill
#46. In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters, but not from its main outline.
Rabindranath Tagore
#47. You have to get very comfortable with the idea of being lonely. For all of human history, we've always run away from being lonely and now there are even more distractions. But that's the thing - if you're going to make the decision to rebel against your tribe, you're going to get very lonely.
Sherman Alexie
#48. Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away".
"If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".
Margaret Wise Brown
#49. She had the simultaneous urge to run away from the approaching menace and run toward him and hold on for dear life. The problem, she realised, was that she had no idea whether he would catch her either way.
Elizabeth Hunter
#50. That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.
Amor Towles
#52. When she called her brother, Buster said that she should climb out the window of the bathroom and run away, which was his solution to most problems.
Kevin Wilson
#53. Don't run away from the gains because it comes with pains. If you ever love to go for the sweet honey, be ready to be stung by a busy bee! Go for it anyway!
Israelmore Ayivor
#54. If you run away from your marriage, I, myself, will take permission from our mother Mary, go to Amadioha and ask him to strike you dead, and after that come back to our mother most merciful.
S.A. David
#55. No one suffers long, save by his own fault. If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?
Michel De Montaigne
#56. Run away. Whatever you are, run away. Run back to your gibbet, run back to your grave, little wish hound. All you can do is depress us, fill the world with shadows and illusions. The age when you ran with the wild hunt, or hunted terrified humans, it's over.
Neil Gaiman
#57. (Is this what we fled, when we left the ocean? Did we grow legs so we could run away?)
Cherie Priest
#58. I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.
Julian Bond
#59. The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#60. People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.
Neil Gaiman
#61. You strip me bare, and see through everything. You see me in a way that lets me know that you know everything about me, my flaws and those imperfections that most guys run away from. You see the real me and yet you still want me.
Amelia Hutchins
#62. I can't, I can't, I can't help hearing, I can't help seeing. I can't help it unless I run away.
Ian Cross
#63. Together they'd run away. Together they could find a place to call home. Together they'd finally form their own constellation and never break apart again. He would be her starlight again and she his sun.
Hella Grichi
#64. Love doesn't make you run away. Love makes you come back.
Siri Mitchell
#65. I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
Carlos Mesa
#66. If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.
Ed Helms
#69. Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.
Sinclair Lewis
#70. What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
Albert Camus
#71. It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
Samuel West
#72. It was all I could do not to fall on my knees and weep like the bastard she always said I was, and I was a breath away from begging her to run away with me.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#73. Let's have a toast for the douchebags,
Let's have a toast for the assholes,
Let's have a toast for the scumbags,
Every one of them that I know
Let's have a toast to the jerkoffs
That'll never take work off
Baby, I got a plan
Run away fast as you can
Kanye West
#74. No, it would be stupid. That's what I tell my clients. Don't run away from the problem. Making a fresh start can be much harder than sticking things out in the same old place.' 'I
Penny Kline
#75. 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
#76. You're too stupid to be craven," Pyp told him. "I am not," Grenn said. "Yes you are. If a bear attacked you in the woods, you'd be too stupid to run away.
Anonymous
#77. You can't keep bitch-slapping your creativity, or it'll run away and find a new pimp.
George Meyer
#78. You can't look for love, or it will run away from you. But, you know, don't look for it. Don't look for it. Just go where it is and appreciate it, and, you know, it will find you.
Joy Harjo
#79. I read that young Netalia Lackless had run away with a troupe of traveling performers.
Patrick Rothfuss
#80. Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller
#81. That's why I always keep a handful of silver glitter in my pockets. If I get pushed into a conversational corner I throw the glitter into the air, and while the person I'm talking to is distracted, I run away. An additional benefit is that I look like a cool magician, so I've got that going for me.
Jon Acuff
#82. When he had gone home, he had been frightened, he had refused to face what he saw. But he had not really wanted to come home to a land, only to a pas; and not finding the past there, he had run away, fearing the reality, preferring the dream.
Nick Joaquin
#83. I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.
Mark Takano
#85. Nothing worth having comes easy is not about showing up early at the office. It's about showing up in your own life. And living inside the very moment you want to run away from.
Augusten Burroughs
#86. Let me out Aphador.' Penteluck said smoothly.
'So you can attempt to run away, I think not.
Keisha Keenleyside
#87. Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion.
Jane Austen
#88. Every society has its own problems," Morrie said, lifting his eyebrows, the closest he could come to a shrug. "The way to do it, I think, isn't to run away. You have to work at creating your own culture.
Mitch Albom
#89. Ask me what else I remember."
She started to run away, but his hand touched her arm.
"Ask me," he commanded.
Emma shook her head feeling both terrified and the most alive she'd felt in years.
He waited patiently until her eyes met his. "I remember us, Emma.
Lauren Layne
#90. It's the time to run away an' hide under the bed, an' hope the world's still in one piece when you come out again.
Garth Ennis
#91. Listen up, if someone is being nice to you, and you don't know them, run away. No one is nice to you just to be nice to you, and if they are, well, they can go take their pleasant ass somewhere else.
Justin Halpern
#92. Face all challenges. Never run away from them. Especially if you are in the right.
Brian Lee Durfee
#93. I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them.
Nelson Mandela
#94. I have had quite a few obsessive fans. They write to me and then they turn up at signings and look really sheepish. If I said 'boo' to them, they would run away. I think they maybe believe I could take over their lives and sort them out. If they saw the state of my kitchen they wouldn't think that.
Denise Mina
#95. Ennesby, get the Serial Peacemaker to the beach for dustoff."
"Dustoff? You're going to run away from three guys?"
"No, I'm going to kill or capture those three guys, and then run away from the Police.
Howard Tayler
#96. The trouble with witches is that they'll never run away from things they really hate.
And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them's a mongoose.
Terry Pratchett
#97. If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#98. My circus train pulls through the night
Full of lions and trapeze artists
I'm done with elephants and clowns
I want to run away and join the office
Mike Doughty
#99. It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.
Casey Robinson
#100. Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.
Caroline Myss
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