Quotes About Runaway

#1. Life is a beat as death is a runaway. Combine both and you'll never climb up the rope, you'll stay there forever.

Grace

#2. In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

Bruce Springsteen

#3. Who had he been? A failed father, a runaway husband. A son. A packet of unopened letters. He was dead; he was dead.

Anthony Doerr

#4. We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.

Timothy B. Tyson

#5. Given the nature of market, the chance of a crash is always greater than the chance of an overnight runaway euphoria.

Jeff Yass

#6. Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

Anne Tyler

#7. He was going to miss everything. But he guessed that was how everybody always felt. Everyone was losing things, leaving things behind, clinging to old memories as they rushed into the future. Everyone was a passenger on a runaway train.

Philip Reeve

#8. Reading is an escape, come runaway with me.

Janice Elliott-Howard

#9. At some point the Japanese, Chinese and Saudi buyers of US and European Government bonds will see just what miserable value they offer. Then governments may have to stop all the runaway spending and bailouts and even put up interest rates.

Luke Johnson

#10. The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

Jean Cocteau

#11. President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

Peter Fenn

#12. If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

Thomas Sowell

#13. I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years ... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'

Robin Leach

#14. The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

Dixie Lee Ray

#15. of a runaway? Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, from the

Colson Whitehead

#16. This is where the runaway train started down the track. I was inside the dining car enjoying a plate of cookies or something. I didn't feel it then. But the train had been boarded on Saturday night when we drank the bat. And this was the beginning of its journey. Right here.

A.S. King

#17. Piper glanced at the digital clock. "So ... we have exactly one hour to find your runaway table, get back your synco-whatsit, and install it in this engine, or the Argo II explodes, destroying Bunker Nine and most of the woods." "Basically," Leo said.

Rick Riordan

#18. He struggled wildly and got one hand free just as a fist looped down into his face like a runaway moon.

Stephen King

#19. Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Harvey Korman

#20. Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.

Gordon Brown

#21. It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet.

Jim Sullivan

#22. From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

Tom Robbins

#23. runaway my phantom bride
and take your bouquet of poisonous flowers
float away specter
and take the rest of my desire

A.P. Sweet

#24. You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can't stop a good man.

John Paul Warren

#25. One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

Rufus Wainwright

#26. When you ignore your gift, you runaway from your purpose.

Turcois Ominek

#27. How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

Nikki Sixx

#28. For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.

Michael Azerrad

#29. Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.

Steven Spielberg

#30. Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun

Tracy Chapman

#31. You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow.Blue skies, but the sun isn't comming out, no. Today, it is like I'm under a heavy cloud.
Avril Lavigne (Runaway)

Avril Lavigne

#32. stepped into the witness box to be examined. The defense wanted jurors who empathized with Muybridge - a married man who had a runaway wife, on the one hand, and a man who confronted a sexual rival, on the other.

Edward Ball

#33. If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

William H. Calvin

#34. Galen, who forgot this little thing called "tact" when he accused my mom of being a runaway fish-princess.

Anna Banks

#35. You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

Paul Krugman

#36. The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

Bob Schaffer

#37. I had a brief runaway fantasy where I ran away to California, which I'd never been to, to where all the Bigfoots were, and I'd disappear into the woods and live alone, become a rumor, an occasional blurred sighting. Father

Paul Tremblay

#38. The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

John Major

#39. That was totally against the runaway

Iain Dowie

#40. We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

Ruben Hinojosa

#41. You said you left Mississippi in 1854," Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway slave?"
"Not at all," Cindy Lou answers. "Daddy freed him."
Ron's jaw almost hits the floor. His wine glass does.

Daven Anderson

#42. Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe

Gary Snyder

#43. Like many shy people, once he began talking he seemed not to know how to stop; he lacked the social sleight of hand to change the subject, and he had no idea how to engage another person. Like a runaway vehicle, he plunged on, heedless.

Joyce Carol Oates

#44. I lay there and I thought of what that teacher said, and of all the things I'd been: child, rebellious teenager, runaway, whore, lover, bad mother, bad wife. I'm not sure if I can remake myself as a good wife, but a good mother - that I have to try.

Paula Hawkins

#45. During the "Runaway" in 1836, the Indians captured a young German girl. At this time the Indians kept their captives for trade; they could be purchased by relatives or friends. A German purchased this young lady, and made her his wife.

A.J. Sowell

#46. As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

Michelle Shocked

#47. When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.

Nick Clooney

#48. I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

Carre Otis

#49. The other naturally occurring viruses, like ebola, are not durable enough to generate a runaway epidemic.

Martin J. Rees

#50. Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#51. Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken by those who helped runaway slaves in the American South, to mention only one possible parallel.

Peter Singer

#52. Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.

Samuel Rutherford

#53. I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs ... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.

Justine Kurland

#54. If you want to chase a runaway ambulance toward what's left of the American Dream, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao show you that, still, somehow, boxing remains the yellow brick road in our country.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

#55. To be honest, I thought of you as an amateur - a spoiled, entitled, runaway princeling bent on revenge who would get caught and then complicate my elegant scheme. I figured the less you knew, the better."
"I hate it when you sugarcoat things," Ash said.

Cinda Williams Chima

#56. I could never settle for anything less than a renegade and a runaway, a descendant of greatness capable of voluntary disinheritance.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#57. You know that scene in 'Runaway Bride' when Julia Roberts puts on the amazing wedding dress and looks at herself in the mirror and goes, 'Swish, swish'? I loved that moment so much when I was a little girl.

Lily James

#58. No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

Terence McKenna

#59. We're novel worthy, day walking, blood sucking, tortured souls trapped in a body that can't die for all eternity with no feelings, no emotions and no heart. - Elaine White, Runaway Girl

Stavros And Contributors

#60. It is like trying to stop a runaway train with one hand tied behind my back.

Katherine Allred

#61. 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

#62. Look at all those unattractive people talking about depraved things all day long on TV talk shows. People can talk about themselves, yet the art of conversation, which has to do with sharing, is disappearing. I feel as though I am chasing a runaway locomotive.

Letitia Baldrige

#63. A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's consummate, unmitigated tedium.

Michael Dirda

#64. The Apple iPad is not going to be the company's next runaway best seller. Not if the industry can help it ... with the iPad, Apple may have irked its somewhat new partner Intel Corp. Intel gets spanked by nobody.

John C. Dvorak

#65. They don't know I only speak in runaway train stations
and everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.
No one has ever gotten the chance to get too close
because it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.

Katelin Wagner

#66. When a study was made a few years ago on runaway wives, what do you think was discovered to be the main reason wives ran away? It was lack of appreciation.

Dale Carnegie

#67. The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one." In fact, just the opposite is true.

Sharon Salzberg

#68. You and Dad are really the wrecking ball of all of our teenage runaway fantasies. Why couldn't you jerks go and be crack addicts or religious fanatics so we could have excuses to live on the wide open road? - email from Lily

Candace Allan

#69. I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

Etta James

#70. He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends the track of the runaway train before it strikes.

Jodi Picoult

#71. I ain't no runaway, I'm a run-to.

Neal Shusterman

#72. We knock a time or two at the gate of mercy, and as no friendly messenger opens the door, we go our ways. Too many prayers are like boys' runaway knocks, given, and then the giver is away before the door can be opened.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#73. You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence.

Alain De Botton

#74. Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and brought the runaway train under control. Sounds like we've found our next FBI Director.

Argus Hamilton

#75. You're naught but a human man. You couldn't possibly understand."
He lifted a brow, still smiling. "Liar."
"Cutpurse."
"Runaway."
"Swindler!
"Coward," he said softly, and she jerked back.
"Bastard!"
"Undoubtedly true." He made a short bow.

Shana Abe

#76. I have a theory about how she might have managed to pull off such a feat. It comes in the form of an equation: Love + Fear = Herculean Strength. It's how mothers come to fling runaway motorcars from their children.

Franny Billingsley

#77. Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate.

Robert Higgs

#78. Tell him the smitten high school runaway snuck out to jump off a cliff with the hot college guy? ... I'm sure he'll love that. - Blake

H.R. Willaston

#79. Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer -
Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

Manohla Dargis

#80. ... I wanted to show that the mother was the heroine as soon as possible. I'm tired of love-sick girls and runaway wives. We'll prove that there's romance in old women also.

Louisa May Alcott

#81. One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

Jeffrey Bernard

#82. A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

Lance Armstrong

#83. I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

Tom Petty

#84. Stick to catching runaway livestock.

Anne Hagan

#85. The only way to meet pressing social needs and be fiscally responsible is to cut the runaway Pentagon budget, which now almost equals the military spending of all other countries in the world combined.

Dennis Kucinich

#86. The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

William H. Calvin

#87. You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.

Dermot O'Leary

#88. I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

Kathleen Edwards

#89. Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.

Johan Norberg

#90. I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

Tracy Chevalier

#91. All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

Mario Batali

#92. The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.

Gwynne Dyer

#93. Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

Zhuangzi

#94. At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

Rose McGowan

#95. I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

Julia Roberts

#96. Everyone was losing things, leaving things behind, clinging to old memories as they rushed into the future. Everyone was a passenger on a runaway train. It was true that Zen would be going farther than most. But at least he didn't

Philip Reeve

#97. She was a thief, a runaway, a pirate, a magician.
She was fierce, and powerful, and terrifying.
She was still a mystery.
And he loved her.

V.E Schwab

#98. People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

Paul Krugman

#99. (Lucy to Isabeau)"
"Cool." She tilted her head. "You don't look crazy."
"You're like a runaway train," Logan groaned at her. "Can't you shut her up?" he asked his brother pleadingly.
"How?" Nicholas said somewhat helplessly.
"Kiss her, you idiot.

Alyxandra Harvey

#100. Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

Phyllis Schlafly