I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
Stephen Fry

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.
Brett Favre

Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
Mike Krzyzewski

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler Yeats

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
William Butler Yeats

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
William Butler Yeats

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.
Thomas Kempis

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthur

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Thomas Aquinas

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Dwight L. Moody

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Donald Trump

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.
Donald Trump

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
George Will

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
Eric Hoffer