Running Away Quotes

What you can't run away from, you have to face

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

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.

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

Are you running away from something?

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.

It's bizarre. In middle school, I thought girls were running away from me, so when they ask for a picture now, I'm like, 'Really, what?!'

People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.

When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.

In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

As long as you're running away from a part of yourself, you can't see immortality.

Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

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.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

If God is calling you to do something, do it! You can't run away from God!

A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

Don't say a woman is crazy just because she runs away from her wedding.

Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama.

I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.

But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.

Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.