Top 50 Running Away Quotes

I’m human, and we make mistakes. My biggest mistake was that I was running away from something here in New York and I ran into the wrong hands.

There were so many times when I felt like running away from the akhada. But now that we are bearing the fruits of all the hard work, we understand its value.

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio; raised primarily in Phoenix, Arizona; and, after running away from home in my teens to play music and bouncing around a bit, settled in Oxford, Mississippi, which I consider more my home than anywhere else in the world.

I did a bit of running away when my mam passed away. I didn’t go back to work; I started drinking quite a lot, and I know how damaging that can be.

I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I’d run away from those schools. They’d catch me. They’d bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was – it was terrible.

Running away will never make you free.

Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

I didn’t feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Having spent all that time getting away from South Africa, running away from the army, I wanted very much to believe that America and England were actually as free as they were meant to be, not slipping rapidly into becoming police states like the one I’d just left.

If a bully wants to beat you up, you have the choice of running away or standing your ground. In our society, we have police forces who try to control bullies, sometimes by force.

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.

I’m a guy that, if I see people running away from something I’m like, ‘Why you running away? What’s over there?’

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.

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

It took me 14 years to write ‘Crazy Brave‘ because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don’t really want to write about myself. But it’s about writing about memory.

I want to be a good person. I don’t want to fail. I want to learn from my mistakes, rid myself of distractions, and run into the arms of Jesus. Most of the time, however, I feel like I am running away from Jesus into the arms of my own clutteredness.

An actor’s job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.

There’s a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that’s not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

In a presidential campaign, you can’t lie. You can’t hide what you are and what you want. You can’t hide what kind of President you’ll be. You can’t keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can’t keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

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.

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can’t run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

I have always been running away from dance numbers. That’s been my problem.

I think I’m always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre’s always felt like a good place to run away to.

It’s in every person’s life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You’re faced with yourself. There’s no running 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.

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I’m not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

A lot of times, people will say, ‘You’re running away from your problems.’ So what? Why do you have to sit there and confront every single issue? Sometimes going away is the best answer.

Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he’s done.

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

For once in my life, I wanted to flaunt my Asian side instead of hiding it to fit as somebody else… ‘Crazy Rich Asians‘ made me want to get in touch with my roots, instead of running away from them.

We’re living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don’t work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

My heart started running away, like a pack of horses. Then it slowed down and became irregular.

When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.

In general, presidents do sit for interviews or respond to requests from prosecutors because they take their constitutional responsibility to faithfully execute the laws seriously, and running away from a prosecutor isn’t consistent with faithfully executing the laws.

I’ve been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief – I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that’s what I want to do. I’m running away to an invented place.

Just two words are enough to drive away the DMK members from the House. They are running away at the mention of ‘Katchatheevu’ or ‘prohibition.’

I’ve never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn’t feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

I’m so tired of reading all the negativity about black fathers running away and no black men as role models in society. I had a great father. Most of the guys I knew had great fathers.

The danger of writing a so-called thriller is that in your last 100 pages, all of these really interesting characters you’ve created are just running away from something or toward something, but they’re no longer capable of innovation or discovery.

A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won‘t be running away from it or hiding from it.

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you’re revolted by. In fact, often it’s what you’re running away from.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.