Away Quotes

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

God, Him, Small

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.
Charles M. Schulz

Cannot, Problem, Big

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

Hope, Human, Another

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
George Harrison

Truth, Between, Far

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Men, Themselves, Run

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
Audre Lorde

Hold, Protect, Throwing

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. Feynman

Beauty, Science, Night

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.
Katherine Heigl

Mistakes, Bad, Someone

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana

Beautiful, Liberty, Personal

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.
LL Cool J

Love, Simple, Pretty

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
M. Scott Peck

Through, Problems, Else

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Ben Okri

Attention, Both, Common

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
Carl Sandburg

Work, Time, Hard

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Marie Antoinette

Alone, Mother, Husband

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
Phil Jackson

Game, Approach, Efforts

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Franz Kafka

Liberty, Opinion, Earth

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
Keira Knightley

Live, Ask, Guilt

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Heart, Past, Him

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce

Art, Laughter, Fake

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Chinua Achebe

Democracy, Put, Learn

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
Joseph Addison

Lost, Words, Cannot

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Thomas Fuller

Passion, Him, Horse

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet

Great, Friendly, Wind

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
Elvis Presley

Give, Year, Lord

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
Ralph Marston

Lost, Takes, Goals

Running away will never make you free.
Kenny Loggins

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
M. Scott Peck

Power, Give, Means

Men who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes

People who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
Cher

Women, Control, Difficult

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