115 Quotes About Running-away
- Author Anna Freeman
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Now that I could not go back I was not sure, after all, that I wished to go forward. It was a miserable sensation.
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- Author Benyf
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What do we do after things fall apart? Do we run to the familiar once again? Do we attempt to numb the pain with distractions? What do we do after things fall apart?
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- Author Philip Elliott
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And I left him there, this saver of lives. I left him on his knees peering into the eyes of a stranger he’d rescued from oblivion.
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- Author Sherry Jones
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Running away has been futile. Wherever I went life would be the same. Resisting my chains only seem to tighten them. Yet all around me women found ways to slip those bonds, to discreetly flout the rules and then return to their so-called captivity before anyone noticed.
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- Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits who were trapped in dead-end suburbs. They hated high school. Their parents did not understand. They are seeking a better world. And when they realize that the world is wholly a problem, that the whole problem is in them, they make television for other people who are also running, who take voyage in search of a perfect world, then rage at the price of the ticket.
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- Author G.K. Chesterton
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One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.
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- Author Melissa Hill
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So do you think there's more to her than meets the eye!" he teased, and Alex cursed herself for being so easy to read."My guess is she's running from something."No shit Sherlock", she agreed silently. "Probably a guy. It's nearly always a guy.
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- Author Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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A gorgeous iridescent pearl forms inside an oyster when it is irritated. If you’re always running away from what irritates you, how will your gorgeous iridescent self form?
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- Author Terry Pratchett
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Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if only because there was nowhere left to run.
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