Quotes of: Away Keyword

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

Anne Enright

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

Anna Neagle

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When the finish line seems too far away, remember how you felt when you were back at the starting line. Regain that motivation to recharge your momentum.

Toni Sorenson

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

Ted Turner

The truth is like gold: keep it locked up and you will find it exactly as you first put it away.

Senegalese

A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little hole - this refers to a difference in function. Thoroughbreds like Qiji and Hualiu could gallop a thousand li in one day, but when it came to catching...

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day- A sunny day with the leaves just turning, The touch-lines new-ruled - since I watched you play Your first game of fotball, then, like a satellite Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away Behind a scatter ...

C. Day-Lewis

Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. Then send it to a person you respect in the field who will be hard on you. Pray for many m...

Inez Kelley

"What's all the fuss?" said the crane after the eel had slipped away. "I never liked fish anyway."

African

Do something good and your neighbor will never know, do something bad and they will hear about it a hundred miles away.

Chinese

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

Persian

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

The Casual Vacancy

Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!

Daily Drive 365

Today's word was , meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away.

Dawn Comes Early

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

Don't Give It Away!: A Workbook of Self-Awareness and Self-Affirmations for Young Women

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.

Elephant Girl: A Human Story

Shit. Shit. Shit. He’d known he couldn’t save her. He’d known he was too far away. Knowing didn’t prevent the bare-knuckled punch to his heart, though.

First Bite

De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of reliance on logic.

Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't